Olympe de Gouges

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Olympe de Gouges


Born
in Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, France
May 07, 1748

Died
November 03, 1793


Olympe de Gouges, born Marie Gouze, was a French playwright and political activist whose feminist and abolitionist writings reached a large audience. She became an outspoken advocate for ameliorating the condition of slaves in the colonies and she began writing political pamphlets. Today she is perhaps best known as an early feminist who demanded that French women be given the same rights as French men.

In her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen (1791), she challenged the practice of male authority and the notion of male-female inequality. She was executed by guillotine during the Reign of Terror for attacking the regime of Maximilien Robespierre and for her close relation with the Girondists.

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“Woman is born free and lives equal to man in her rights. Social distinctions can be based only on the common utility.”
Olympe de Gouges, The Rights of Woman

“Nous n’avons point de Pygmalion comme les Grecs, par conséquent point de Galatée. Il faudrait donc, mes très chères sœurs, être plus indulgentes entre nous pour nos défauts, nous les cacher mutuellement, et tâcher de devenir plus conséquentes en faveur de notre sexe. Est-il étonnant que les hommes l’oppriment, et n’est-ce pas notre faute ? Peu de femmes sont hommes par la façon de penser, mais il y en a quelques-unes, et malheureusement le plus grand nombre se joint impitoyablement au parti le plus fort, sans prévoir qu’il détruit lui-même les charmes de son empire.”
Olympe de Gouges, Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne

“Regardless of what barriers confront you, it is in your power to free yourselves; you have only to want to.”
Olympe de Gouges

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