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I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted.

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

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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 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)

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