Advantage Quote by 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 of edification now deplorably neglected, for want of that cultivation which these intellectual advantages would confer.”
![“Is it not clear that to give to such women as desire it and can devote themselves to literary and scientific pursuits all the advantages enjoyed by men of the same class will lessen essentially the number of thoughtless, idle, vain and frivolous women and thus secure the [sic] society the services…” quote by Sarah Moore Grimke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8f5/sarah-moore-grimke-22604_advantage_is-it-not-clear-that-to-give-to-such-wom_264407.jpg)
![“[Women] are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern.” quote by Sarah Moore Grimke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/2e5/sarah-moore-grimke-22604_taught_women-are-early-taught-that-to-appear-to_430543.jpg)
![“[On the New Testament:] I ... must enter my protest against the false translation of some passages by the men who did that work, and against the perverted interpretation by the men who undertook to write commentaries thereon. I am inclined to think, when we [women] are admitted to the honor of…” quote by Sarah Moore Grimke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e8e/sarah-moore-grimke-22604_bible_on-the-new-testament-i-must-enter-my-pro_790169.jpg)
![“Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this…” quote by Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/449/abraham-lincoln-88_adoption_next-came-the-patent-laws-these-began-in_1828.jpg)
