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There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.
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I know nothing of man's rights, or woman's rights; human rights are all that I recognise.
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I want my sex to claim nothing from their brethren but what their brethren may justly claim from them.
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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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At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.
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There is another way in which the general opinion, that women are inferior to men, is manifested....I allude to the disproportionate value set on the time and labor of men and women.
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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.
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The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians.
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No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Edvard Munch
Sarah Grimké
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Born:
November 26, 1792
Died:
December 23, 1873
(aged 81)
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