Tell me? What gave you the sovereign right to oppress my sex? Your strength? Your talents? Observe the creator in his wisdom, examine nature in all its grandeur for you seem to wish to get closer to it, and give me, if you dare, a pattern for this tyrannical power. Man, are you capable of being fair? A woman is asking: at least you will allow her that right. She was later declared a political enemy of the Jacobins and executed for treasonĭeclaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen Olympe de Gouges portrait by Alexander Kucharskyįrench feminist and playwright Olympe de Gouges wrote this declaration, published in 1791, in response to the new French government’s Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 and what she saw as failures of the French Revolutionary movement with regard to women.
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