The Rights of Woman

Man, are you capable of being just? It is a woman who poses the question;

you will not deprive her of that right at least. Tell me,

what gives you sovereign empire to oppress my sex? Your strength?

Your talents?

Man alone has raised his exceptional circumstances to a principle.

Bizarre, blind, bloated with science and degenerated –

in a century of enlightenment and wisdom – into the crassest ignorance,

he wants to command as a despot a sex which is in full possession

of its intellectual faculties; he pretends to enjoy the Revolution

and to claim his rights to equality in order to say nothing more about it.