If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?
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If a Woman can neither Love nor Honour, she does ill in promising to Obey.
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But if marriage be such a blessed state, how comes it, may you say, that there are so few happy marriages? Now in answer to this, is it not to be wondered that so few succeed, we should rather be surprized to find so many do, considering how imprudently men engage, the motive they act by, and the very strange conduct they observe throughout.
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If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? as they must be if the being subjected to the inconsistent, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary will of men, be the perfect condition of slavery? and if the essence of freedom consists, as our masters say it does, in having a standing rule to live by? And why is slavery so much condemned and strove against in one case, and so highly applauded, and held so necessary and so sacred in another ?
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Birth: | 12th November, 1666 |
Death: | 11th May, 1731 |
Nationality: | British |
Profession: | Writer |
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