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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

Other quotes by Mary Astell

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

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

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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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