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Quotation from Medea and Other Plays by Euripides

“Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, A herb most bruised is woman”

Euripides (spoken by Medea)

Medea and Other Plays, Medea, trans. Gilbert Murray (1912)

Portrait of Euripides

Medea begins her appeal to the Corinthian women by describing the vulnerability of wives in marriage and exile.

Citation: "Of all things upon earth that bleed and grow, A herb most bruised is woman" — Euripides, Medea and Other Plays, Medea, trans. Gilbert Murray (1912). (id medea-and-other-plays-q1)

Portrait: Euripides Pio-Clementino Inv302, Marie-Lan Nguyen, Public domain.

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