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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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Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. – Mary Astell

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Wisdom
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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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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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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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Men & Women

Every woman is like a time-zone. She is a nocturnal fragment of your journey. She brings you unflaggingly closer to the next night. – Jean Baudrillard

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Men & Women

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

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Men & Women

Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them. – Walter Bagehot

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Men & Women

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In the general course of human nature, A power over a mans subsistence amounts to a power over his will. – Alexander Hamilton

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There are those who try to bottle the old year for safekeeping but at midnight the cork always pops. – Terri Guillemets, “Memories old & new,” 2005

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We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation. – Sandra Day OConnor

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Ohio claims they are due a president as they havent had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln. – Will Rogers

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