  Fell’s arguments are echoed in the works of later Quaker women. In 1683, Elizabeth Bathurst published The Sayings of Women (1683), the only other seventeenth-century tract after Fell’s to be “exclusively devoted to the vindication of women’s speaking” (Apetrei 2010, 174). Like Womens Speaking, this work is more than just a collection of quotations from the Bible: it is intended to show that, following Christ’s restitution of humanity, women once again share a spiritual equality with men. In the “Postscript” to this work, Bathurst contrasts the state of women after the fall with the state of women following Christ’s redemption. She points out that “As by Woman came in the Transgression and Degeneration; So by Woman also came the Reconciliation and Restoration, to wit, Christ, who came of the Woman’s Seed” (Bathurst 1683, 24). Like Fell, Bathurst highlights the fact that women play a special role in redemptive history and, with the coming of Christ, “Male and Female are made all one” (24).