[Women] are early taught that to appear to yield is the only way to govern.
- Sarah Moore Grimke
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- An idea built the wall of separation between the sexes, and an idea will crumble it to dust.
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- The virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and...
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- There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.
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- At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering,...
- It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as...
- Good and evil, as we term them, are not antagonistic; they are ever found hand in hand. Humanity...
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