Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of mind, the heartlessness, the frivolity which is the necessary result of this false and debasing estimate of women,… — 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
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
An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust. — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share
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
There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings. — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share
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
[Women] are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern. — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share
whatsoever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do. — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share
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
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
[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
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
The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for which they… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share
Good and evil, as we term them, are not antagonistic; they are ever found hand in hand. Humanity has never achieved a single conquest… — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share
[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality. — Sarah Moore Grimke Copy Share
