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  • We forget that the 1793 Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen categorically excluded women -- a decision that sent feminist Olympe de Gouges to the guillotine -- and that this women-hating attitude continued in France for another 151 years until women were officially given the vote in 1944, by which time many of us who supported Hillary Clinton for President were toddlers.

    Nancy Graham Holm: History, Feminism And The Growing Gender Jihad Nancy Graham Holm 2011

  • We forget that the 1793 Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen categorically excluded women -- a decision that sent feminist Olympe de Gouges to the guillotine -- and that this women-hating attitude continued in France for another 151 years until women were officially given the vote in 1944, by which time many of us who supported Hillary Clinton for President were toddlers.

    Nancy Graham Holm: History, Feminism And The Growing Gender Jihad Nancy Graham Holm 2011

  • Gouges down through the white layer of snow into the dark forest floor radiated from a ragged bowl-shaped depression where the tree had been.

    Men Don't Leave Me 2010

  • Democrats should take out the Cigarette Tax in the bill and instead include several, complicated progressive roll backs of the Bush Tax Gouges.

    House Vote On SCHIP Falls Short Of Veto Override; Not One GOPer Changed Vote 2009

  • Marie Antoinette, Olympe de Gouges (a monarchist and a feminist) and Madame Roland (a Girondin) followed in the next few months, and the Jacobins also banned all women's political associations, such as the well-known Society of Revolutionary

    Editorial Notes to 'Letter to the Women of England' 2007

  • In her 1791 Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne [Declaration of the Rights of Woman and Female Citizen], Gouges rejoices in the natural equality of all human beings and decries the hypocrisy of denying people on the basis of race and sex the inherent rights to which they are owed.

    The Snowbank 2009

  • As early as October 1789, the playwright Olympe de Gouges proposed a reform program to the National Assembly that encompassed legal sexual equality, admission for women to all occupations, and the suppression of the dowry system through a state-provided alternative.

    The Snowbank 2009

  • Gouges in a rub are made by antler points, especially the nubs near the antler bases, and can signify that the sign was made by a big buck.

    Do Your Homework: Scouting Early Season Rubs Can Earn Trophy Bucks 2006

  • In September 1791, the antislavery playwright Olympe de Gouges turned the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen inside out.

    Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2007 – June – 13 2007

  • Like de Gouges, Wollstonecraft suffered public vilification for her boldness.

    Rad Geek People’s Daily – 2007 – June – 13 2007

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