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I know nothing of man’s rights, or woman’s rights; human rights are all that I recognise.
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
I want my sex to claim nothing from their brethren but what their brethren may justly claim from them.
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
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.
The Female Experience (1977)
The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians.
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy.
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic circle 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.
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
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, can only be fully understood by those who have mingled in the folly and wickedness of fashionable life.
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare themselves for more extensive usefulness, by making use of those religious and literary privileges and advantages that are within their reach, if they will only stretch out their hands and possess them.
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
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.
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments. Yet this is the lot of many a one who incessantly stitches and boils and bakes, compelled to thrust back out of sight the aspirations which fill her soul.
The Female Experience (1977)