Sarah Grimké Quote

If the sewing societies, the avails of whose industry are now expended in supporting and educating young men for the ministry, were to withdraw their contributions to these objects, and give them where they are more needed, to their advancement of their own sex in useful learning, the next generation might furnish sufficient proof, that in intelligence and ability to master the whole circle of sciences, woman is not inferior to man.

Letter 15 (October 20, 1837). - Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1853)