gender equality 16
- Whatever is right for a man to do is right for a woman to do
- Bible translators turned a prediction of male rule into a command to men
Sarah Grimké
American abolitionist and women's rights writer (1792 to 1873); author of Letters on the Equality of the Sexes.
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What Sarah Grimké says most about
religion 7
- Bible translators turned a prediction of male rule into a command to men
- Woman is bound to be subject to God alone, and accountable only to him
America 2
- American laws on women were framed for men's benefit and strip women of control of their property
- No American woman can stay indifferent to slavery and remain guiltless
education 2
- Men are paid more than women for teaching even when they are no better at it
- Women's education consists almost exclusively of cooking and other manual work