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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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Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. – Mary Astell

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Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best. – 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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Give a woman a job and she grows balls. – Jack Gelber

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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be the arrangement of your chromosomes. – Bella Abzug

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Women are all female impersonators to some degree. – Susan Brownmiller

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