Quotes by Astell, Mary




Mary Astell (1666-1731) was a proto-feminist writer whose advocacy of equal educational opportunities for women earned her the title "the first English feminist.".

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

Astell, Mary on women
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