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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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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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The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it. – Mary Astell

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Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own subsistence, and their dependence will be abolished — that of man also. – Simone de Beauvoir

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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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Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for women. – Nancy Astor

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On the day when it will be possible for woman to love not in her weakness but in strength, not to escape herself but to find herself, not to abase herself but to assert herself — on that day love will become for her, as for man, a source of life… – Simone de Beauvoir

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