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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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Ignorance and a narrow education lay the foundation of vice, and imitation and custom rear it up. – Mary Astell

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With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. – Jane Austen

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When a woman is very, very bad, she is awful, but when a man is correspondingly good, he is weird. – Minna Antrim

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So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind. – Aristotle

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We have done almost everything in pairs since Noah, except govern. And the world has suffered for it. – Bella Abzug

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