Mary Astell
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"Mary Astell" was an English feminism/feminist writer and rhetorician. Her advocacy of equal educational opportunities for women has earned her the title "the first English feminist."

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. . . he who only or chiefly chose for Beauty, will in a little Time find the same Reason for another Choice.

If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves?

There is not anything so excellent, but some will carp at it. . .