Carelessly Uttered: Who Said That?

Recently I've received questions about the quote that's below the title of this blog.  Readers from Arkansas, Colorado, and Rhode Island have wondered about it. Who wrote it?  Aphra Behn (English, 1640 - 1689). It's believed that she's the first woman in history to support herself by writing.  She was also a spy and was called The Incomparable because she was so darn good at it. She also went to debtor's prison, and it was after she got out that she started earning her living as a writer. Virginia Woolf said, "All women together ought to let flowers fall upon the grave of Aphra Behn... for it was she who earned them the right to speak their minds."  The quote below the title of this blog is from her poem "Love's Witness."