sentences: "The petition was not well received - while there were some supportive members of the National Assembly, most argued that the women were out of their place and were suffering from the hysteria of a rapidly changing society.Because of the many repeated attempts at women's equality and suffrage that failed (including the Women's Petition to the National Assembly in November 1789), Olympe de Gouges (and many other contemporary feminists) brought feminism and the extension of "egalité" to women to the forefront of the debate surrounding the Revolution with documents such as the "Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen".