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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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But, alas! what poor Woman is ever taught that she should have a higher Design than to get her a Husband? – Mary Astell

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

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

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The large print giveth, but the small print taketh away. – Tom Waits, Small Change

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I just put my feet in the air and move them around. – Fred Astaire

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A short saying often contains much wisdom. – Sophocles

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