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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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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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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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design
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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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best
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Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. – Lois Wyse

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There is more difference within the sexes than between them. – Ivy Compton-Burnett, Mother and Son

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Instead of getting hard ourselves and trying to compete, women should try and give their best qualities to men — bring them softness, teach them how to cry. – Joan Baez, “Sexism Seen but not Heard,” Los Angeles Times, 1974

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Feminism directly confronts the idea that one person or set of people [has] the right to impose definitions of reality on others. – Liz Stanley and Sue Wise

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Advertising is the most fun you can have with your clothes on. – Jerry Della Femina

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Ive been working on Barb for a while. I looked at her as a sort of every woman. Shes incredibly strong shes incredibly generous. Shes seemingly insane because she is in the situation of a polygamous relationship, but she had definite reasons to do it. – Jeanne Tripplehorn

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Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. – Mason Cooley

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Success is due less to ability than to zeal. – Charles Buxton

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