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.
Sarah Moore Grimké: Frases de mujeres
Sarah Moore Grimké era feminista estadounidense. Explorar las citas interesantes en mujeres..
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 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».