"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 inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary Will of Men be the perfect Condition of Slavery?"
— Mary Astell

January 1, 1970

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Reflection upon Marriage (1700), as quoted in Astell: Political Writings, p. 18, by Mary Astell, Editor Patricia Springborg. Editorial Cambridge University Press, 1996. ISBN 0521428459.