Grievances of the women of Saint-Jean-de-Luz and Ciboure to the King
Because they are men
It is therefore because they are men that they are called to the council of the nation; and we are shut out of it because we are not. What unworthy partiality! Is it then an ignominious stain to be born a woman? Shall it be said that under so enlightened a reign we must blush for our sex?