Quotes from Sarah Moore Grimke

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.

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.

I ask no favors for my sex.... All I ask of our brethren is that they will take their feet from off our necks.

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

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.