Original: «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».
Fuente: Citado en Lerner, Gerda. The Female Experience: An American Documentary. Editor Gerda Lerner. Edición reimpresa. Editorial Oxford University Press, 1977. ISBN 9780195072587. p. 478.
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Frases célebres de Sarah Moore Grimké
Carta 3ª, julio 1837. Página 15.
Cartas sobre la igualdad de los sexos y la condición de la mujer (1837)
Original: «I am persuaded that the rights of woman, like the rights of slaves, need only be examined to be understood and asserted».
Carta 2ª, 17 de julio de 1837. Página 10.
Cartas sobre la igualdad de los sexos y la condición de la mujer (1837)
Original: «I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy».
Carta 2ª, 17 de julio de 1837. Página 11.
Cartas sobre la igualdad de los sexos y la condición de la mujer (1837)
Original: «All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to his sensual pleasures, to be instrumental in promoting his comfort; but never has he desired to elevate her to that rank she was created to fill. He has done all he could to debase and enslave her mind; and now he looks triumphantly on the ruin he has wrought, and say, the being he has thus deeply injured is his inferior».
Carta 1ª, 11 de julio de 1837. Página 11.
Cartas sobre la igualdad de los sexos y la condición de la mujer (1837)
Original: «Had Adam tenderly reproved his wife, and endeavored to lead her to repentance instead of sharing in her guilt, I should be much more ready to accord to man that superiority which he claims; but as the facts stand disclosed by the sacred historian, it appears to me that to say the least, there was as much weakness exhibited by Adam as by Eve. They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality».
Original: «Oh, had I received the education I desired, had I been bred to the profession of the law, I might have been a useful member of society, and instead of myself and my property being taken care of, I might have been a protector of the helpless, a pleader for the poor and unfortunate».
Fuente: Citado en Lerner, Gerda. The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Woman's [sic] Rights and Abolition. Edición reimpresa. Editorial Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 9780195106039. p. 46.
Carta a Harriot Hunt, 1853.
Original: «At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline. Yet I have sometimes tasted exquisite joy and have found solace for many a woe in the innocence and earnest love of Theodore's children. But for this my life would have little to record of mundane pleasures».
Fuente: Citado en Lerner, Gerda. The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Woman's [sic] Rights and Abolition. Edición reimpresa. Editorial Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 9780195106039. p. 241.
Sarah Moore Grimké: Frases en inglés
Letter 2 (July 17, 1837).
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
Written in 1857, as quoted in ch. 87.
The Female Experience (1977)
Letter 3 (July 1837).
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
Letter 9 (August 25, 1837).
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
Letter 2 (July 17, 1837).
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
Letter 15 (October 20, 1837).
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
Letter 15 (October 20, 1837).
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.”
Letter 9 (August 25, 1837).
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
Letter 8 (1837).
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
“I know nothing of man’s rights, or woman’s rights; human rights are all that I recognise.”
Letter 15 (October 20, 1837).
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
Opposing unreciprocated acts of chivalry and deference toward women.
Letter 15 (October 20, 1837).
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
Letter 15 (October 20, 1837).
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
Written in 1852, as quoted in ch. 87.
The Female Experience (1977)
As quoted in The Grimke Sisters from South Carolina, by Gerda Lerner, ch.5 (1969).
Written in 1852, as quoted in ch. 87.
The Female Experience (1977)
Letter 8.
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
Written in 1852, as quoted in ch. 87.
The Female Experience (1977)
Letter 1 (July 11, 1837).
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
Written in 1852, as quoted in ch. 87.
The Female Experience (1977)
Written in 1852, as quoted in ch. 87.
The Female Experience (1977)
Letter to Harriot Hunt (1853), as quoted in The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Woman's [sic] Rights and Abolition, p. 241, by Gerda Lerner. Editorial Oxford University Press, 1998. ISBN 0195106032.
The “cause” was two-fold: abolition of slavery and establishment of women’s rights, especially suffrage. Some abolitionists and feminists thought it essential to win the support of clergymen.
Letter 15 (October 20, 1837).
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837)
