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.

— Sarah Grimké Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)

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