If all men are born free, how is it that all Women are born slaves? as they must be if the being subject to the
inconstant, uncertain, unknown, arbitrary Will of Men, be the
perfect Condition of Slavery? and if the Essence of Freedom consists, as our Masters say it does, in having a
standing Rule to live by?
Mary Astell,
Some Reflections on Marriage, 1700

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