Sarah Moore Grimke

I want my sex to claim nothing from their brethren but what their brethren may justly claim from them.

— Sarah Moore Grimke

Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust.

— Sarah Moore Grimke

Is it not clear that to give to such women as desire it and can devote themselves to literary and scientific pursuits…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.

— Sarah Moore Grimke

All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

[Women] are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern.

— Sarah Moore Grimke

whatsoever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do.

— Sarah Moore Grimke

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

If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic work would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent conversation, a means…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

[On the New Testament:] I ... must enter my protest against the false translation of some passages by the men who did…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

I ask no favors for my sex, I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is that…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

The reason why women effect so little and are so shallow is because their aims are low, marriage is the prize for…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

Good and evil, as we term them, are not antagonistic; they are ever found hand in hand. Humanity has never achieved a…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

— Sarah Moore Grimke

It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

There is another way in which the general opinion, that women are inferior to men, is manifested....I allude to the disproportionate value…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

Had Adam tenderly reproved his wife, and endeavored to lead her to repentance instead of sharing in her guilt, I should be…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

If the sewing societies, the avails of whose industry are now expended in supporting and educating young men for the ministry, were…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

Oh, had I received the education I desired, had I been bred to the profession of the law, I might have been…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare themselves for more extensive usefulness, by…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

In all ages, through all the varied experience of individuals and nations, knowledge has been the power which has civilized, elevated and…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

Intellect is not sexed;... strength of mind is not sexed; and ... our views about the duties of men and the duties…

— Sarah Moore Grimke

At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.

— Sarah Moore Grimke