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*“I am a [woman]. Hath not a [woman] eyes? Hath not a [woman] hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions; fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a [man] is? If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? … The [inequality] you teach me I will [not] execute, … but I will better the instruction.”
Excerpted, with edits, from William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice, Act III, Scene i