sovereignty quotes

If absolute sovereignty be not necessary in a State, how comes it to be so in a family?

- Mary Astell
  Some Reflections upon MarriageOccasion'd by the Duke and Duchess of Mazarine's Case which is also consider'd, preface (1706 edn).

   Then let us have our libertyagain, And challenge to yourselves no sovereignty. You came not in the world without our pain, Make that a bar against your cruelty; Your fault being greater, why should you disdain Our being your equals, free from tyranny?

- Aemilia Lanyer
Salve Deus Ex Judaeorum,'Eve's  Apology in Defense of Women'.