Original text (German)
The worst of superstitions is to think
One's own most bearable.
Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident.
I have always said it—Nature meant woman to be her masterpiece.
Man, whence is he?
Too bad to be the work of a god, too good for the work of chance.
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The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.
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