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».
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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».
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.