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Quotes from Women, Adored and Oppressed — Thomas Paine

1737–1809 England

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If we take a survey of ages and of countries, we shall find the women, almost - without exception - at all times and in all places, adored and oppressed. Man, who has never neglected an opportunity of exerting his power, in paying homage to their beauty, has always availed himself of their weakness He has been at once their tyrant and their slave.

Disputed Women, Adored and Oppressed (1775)

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