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“Fellow women citizens, why should we not enter into rivalry with the men?  Do they alone lay claim to have rights to glory; no, no … And we too would wish to earn a civic crown and court the honor of dying for a liberty which is dearer perhaps to us than it is to them, since the effects of despotism weigh still more heavily upon our heads than upon theirs… . let us open a list of French Amazons; and let all who truly love their Fatherland write their names there.” 
— Théroigne de Méricourt