Sarah Moore Grimke Quotes

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

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

whatsoever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do.

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.

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.

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

At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.

[On the Adam and Eve story:] They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.

[Women] are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern.

There is another way in which the general opinion, that women are inferior to men, is manifested....I allude to the disproportionate value set on the time and labor of men and women.