Sarah Grimké Quote

One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare themselves for more extensive usefulness, by making use of those religious and literary privileges and advantages that are within their reach, if they will only stretch out their hands and possess them.


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


One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare themselves for more extensive usefulness, by making use...

One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare themselves for more extensive usefulness, by making use...

One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare themselves for more extensive usefulness, by making use...

One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare themselves for more extensive usefulness, by making use...