The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they strive; if foiled in that they rarely rise above disappointment. — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
I want my sex to claim nothing from their brethren but what their brethren may justly claim from them. — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of mind, the… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust. — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
Is it not clear that to give to such women as desire it and can devote themselves to literary and scientific pursuits all the… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings. — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
[Women] are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern. — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
whatsoever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do. — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted. — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means of edification… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
[On the New Testament:] I ... must enter my protest against the false translation of some passages by the men who did that work,… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
I ask no favors for my sex, I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is that they will… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share Image
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