Olympe de Gouges

De Gouges answered the French Revolution's Declaration of the Rights of Man with her own Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen (1791), rewriting it article by article: "Woman is born free and remains equal to man in rights." She added that if women can mount the scaffold, they should be able to mount the speaker's rostrum. A moderate who opposed the Jacobins, she was guillotined in 1793, which makes the point for her.