First and foremost I would like to state I am happy to be assigned to read feminist pieces of work! Marie Gouze was born in a butchers family in the south of France in 1748. A French activist and playwright took the the name Olyme de Gouges. The Declaration of the Rights of Women published in 1791 in order to bring into light the extreme gender inequalities during the French Revolution. She states, “This revolution will only take place when all women become fully aware of their deplorable condition, and the rights they have lost in society,”. That sentence in itself has so much power in my opinion because she is trying to inform women how severe and poor their status in society is. By exposing the truth she is trying to unleash the beast (women) to step up and take part in their natural born rights. That being in politics, marriage equality, ownership, speech, duties, the list goes on and on. Another favorite line was,”Women have the right to mount the scaffold, they must also have the right to mount the speaker’s rostrum”. De Gouges exclaims women are allowed to be condemned equally as men but denied equal rights. I absolutely love this piece because she is basically telling women to wake the hell up! Additionally, to stand together and realize the importance of oneself. I wish she was still alive so I can grab a cup of tea/coffee with her. I believe she was very successful in conveying her message as it was a stepping stone to where we are today. She introduced the real issue and it was the baby steps that needed to be taken in order to expose the blatant inequality among men and women. Nowadays you can definitely see the power of a female, common example taking place is a female running for president! It is beautiful how a women’s chance of receiving an education, enjoying a constitutional right to equality and living longer have increased. However there are always double standards in place and women will in my opinion never fully achieve same respect as men universally.