Gabrielle Suchon Quotes on Freedom
Gabrielle Suchon was a French philosopher and one of the most original feminist political philosophers of the Grand Siecle, who escaped the Dominican convent into which her family had placed her and lived as a freelance writer in seventeenth-century Lyon. This page collects quotes attributed to Gabrielle Suchon on the topic of freedom, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Gabrielle Suchon:
“Women are deprived of liberty, of knowledge, and of authority; the philosopher must speak for them in turn.”
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Attributed to Gabrielle Suchon:
“The celibate life freely chosen is not the renunciation of love, but the freedom to choose its objects.”
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Attributed to Gabrielle Suchon:
“What is denied to half the human race is denied to humanity itself.”
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Attributed to Gabrielle Suchon:
“A woman who governs herself by reason owes obedience to no one but reason.”