"Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.“


-Mary Wollstonecraft

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Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.

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