We are ourselves our owne disposers, masters;
And those that you call husbands are our Servants.
...
Do you think there’s any thing
Our husbands labour for, and not for our ends?
Are we shut out of Counsailes, privacies,
And onely lymitted our household business?
No, certaine, Lady, we pertake with all,
Or our good men pertake no rest.”
The Tragedy of Sir John van Olden Barnavelt (1619).