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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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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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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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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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You can get your appetite elsewhere, as long as you eat at home. – Anonymous

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Men & Women

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

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

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Men & Women

Man forgives women anything save the wit to outwit him. – Minna Antrim

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Men & Women

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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain. – Samuel Johnson

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I smile so much at the theater my face hurts when I leave. – Heather Matarazzo

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I would like to thank everyone who supported me to be fit for the Euros. I had some fitness problems before the tournament, but I am here now! – Andriy Shevchenko

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