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Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen

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Olympe de Gouges's article-by-article rewriting of the Revolution's Declaration to include women, demanding equal rights in law, property, education, and public life. She paid for it with her life, and the document became a founding text of feminism.

Woman is born free and remains equal to man in rights. Social distinctions may be founded only on the common good. Woman has the right to mount the scaffold; she must equally have the right to mount the rostrum, provided that her demonstrations do not disturb the public order established by law.

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