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Women, rouse yourselves! The tocsin of reason resounds through the whole universe: recognize your rights. The powerful empire of nature is no longer surrounded by prejudices, fanaticism, superstition and lies.
Olympe de Gouges
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Any law which violates the inalienable rights of man is essentially unjust and tyrannical; it is not a law at all.
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Born:
May 7, 1748
Died:
November 3, 1793
(aged 45)
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Olympe de Gouges, born Marie Gouze, was a French playwright and political activist whose feminist and abolitionist writings reached a large audience.
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