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Man, are you capable of being just? It is a woman who poses the question, you will not deprive her of that right at least. Tell me, what gives you sovereign over empire to oppress my sex? Your strength? Your talents?

— Olympe de Gouges Declaration of the Rights of Women (1791)

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