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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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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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How can a Man respect his Wife when he has a contemptible Opinion of her and her Sex? – Mary Astell

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respect
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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
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I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes enormous demands on me, who does not doubt my courage or my toughness, who does not believe me naïve or innocent, who has the courage to treat me like a woman. – Anaïs Nin

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Feminism

Most women are one man away from welfare. – Gloria Steinem

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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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Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition. – Timothy Leary

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Although your knowledge is weak and small, you need not be silent: since you cannot be judges be at least witnesses. – Franz Grillparzer

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Cursed is the man who dies, but the evil done by him survives. – Abu Bakr

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From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate. – Socrates

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How do you build a relationship when youve hardly shared a word but suddenly share a child? How do you love a daughter you dont see for nearly two years? When does she become your daughter? How does she become your daughter? – Boris Becker

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