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Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily

Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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The divine right of husbands, like the divine right of kings, may, it is hoped, in this enlightened age, be contested without danger. – Mary Wollstonecraft

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