5 Sarah Grimke Quotes on Gender

Sarah Grimke quotes on gender

4. All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to his sensual pleasures, to be instrumental in promoting his comfort; but never has he desired to elevate her to that rank she was created to fill. He has done all he could to debase and enslave her mind; and now he looks triumphantly on the ruin he has wrought, and say, the being he has thus deeply injured is his inferior.

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

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10. Intellect is not sexed;... strength of mind is not sexed; and ... our views about the duties of men and the duties of women, the sphere of man and the sphere of woman, are mere arbitrary opinions, differing in different ages and countries, and dependent solely on the will and judgment of erring mortals.

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

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16. I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognise.