Many a woman shudders... at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army of martyrs among our married and unmarried women who, not having cultivated a taste for science, art or literature, form a corps of nervous patients who make fortunes for agreeable physicians.
Sarah Moore GrimkeI know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognize.
Sarah Moore GrimkeThe 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.
Sarah Moore GrimkeThe 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.
Sarah Moore GrimkeThere has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.
Sarah Moore Grimke