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

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As vivacity is the gift of women, gravity is that of men. – Joseph Addison

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There are certainly are not so many men of large fortune in the world as there are of pretty woman to deserve them. – Jane Austen

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