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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

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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. – Mary Astell

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Education
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Mary Astell
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We all agree that its fit to be as Happy as we can, and we need no Instructor to teach us this Knowledge, tis born with us, and is inseparable from our Being, but we very much need to be Informd what is the true Way to Happiness. – Mary Astell

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Happiness
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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

The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong. – Henry Adams

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Men & Women

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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Men & Women

When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird. – Minna Antrim

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Men & Women

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Let them hate so long as they fear. – Lucius Accius

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Concentrated power is not rendered harmless by the good intentions of those who create it. – Milton Friedman

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For such an advanced civilization as ours to be without images that are adequate to it is as serious a defect as being without memory. – Werner Herzog

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Maybe someday you can accuse somebody of being a poseur by selling out and playing blues music, but thats just not going to happen in my lifetime. – John Mayer

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