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If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves

If all men are born free, why is it that all women are born slaves? – Mary Astell

Other quotes by Mary Astell

Hitherto I have courted Truth with a kind of Romantick Passion, in spite of all Difficulties and Discouragements: for knowledge is thought so unnecessary an Accomplishment for a Woman, that few will give themselves the Trouble to assist us in the Attainment of it. – Mary Astell

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Knowledge
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How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex? – Mary Astell

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respect
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There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them. – Jane Austen

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So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind. – Aristotle

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Men & Women

Man loves little and often. Woman much and rarely. – Basta

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We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it. – Bella Abzug

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