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If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? – 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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design
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Mary Astell
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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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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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Other Quotes from
Feminism
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It starts when you sink in his arms and ends with your arms in his sink. – Author Unknown

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Feminism

Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry. – Gloria Steinem

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Feminism

I do not wish them to have power over men, but over themselves. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Feminism

Man endures pain as an undeserved punishment; woman accepts it as a natural heritage. – Author Unknown

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Feminism

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Life is hard. After all, it kills you. – Katharine Hepburn

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When I can 10 or 11, my mom was the one out there catching passes for me. She was my prime receiver. – Joe Theismann

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mom

Womens health is one of WHOs highest priorities. – Gro Harlem Brundtland

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Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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design