Quote by Mary Astell
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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The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in Gods Eyes. – 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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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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Give a woman a job and she grows balls. – Jack Gelber

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Young wives are the leading asset of corporate power. They want the suburbs, a house, a settled life, and respectability. They want society to see that they have exchanged themselves for something of value. – Ralph Nader

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Men will often admit other women are oppressed but not you. – Sheila Rowbotham

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It is now possible for a flight attendant to get a pilot pregnant. – Richard J. Ferris

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I think serial monogamy says it all. – Tracey Ullman

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