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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

Other quotes by Mary Astell

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

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Feminism

Sexism is a social disease. – Author Unknown

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American women are fools because they try to be everything to everybody. – Viva

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

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Some fellows get credit for being conservative when they are only stupid. – Kin Hubbard

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Nature is at work. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow. – David Seabury

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Men are what their mothers made them. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Making a film of a work youve played for six weeks gives you intimate knowledge of the character. By the time you go in front of the camera youve worked out the behavior and life of a character. – Linda Lavin

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Knowledge