where her father-in-law (and uncle) John Winthrop
served as Governor
. Her subsequent behaviour would scandalize the Puritan
colony.
A novel of her life, The Winthrop Woman, was written by Anya Seton
.
Elizabeth Fones was born at Groton Manor
, Suffolk
, England
on 21 January 1610 to Thomas Fones, a London
apothecary
, and his wife, Anne Winthrop, sister of John Winthrop
, a staunch puritan and the eventual Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
.
As a young girl, Elizabeth worked at her father's shop in London.
It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.
Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer – its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.
We are still exchanging blows with the British government. They are using gay gangsters. Each time I pass through London, the gangster regime of Blair
What we hate is not the color of their skins but the evil that emanates from them.
Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!
The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.
We have fought for our land, we have fought for our sovereignty, small as we are we have won our independence and we are prepared to shed our blood…. So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.
Let Blair and the British government take note and listen. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans. Our people are overjoyed, the land is ours. We are now the rulers and owners of Zimbabwe.