... intellect is not sexed;... strength of mind is not sexed; and ... our views about the duties of men and the duties of women, t...he sphere of man and the sphere of woman, are mere arbitrary opinions, differing in different ages and countries, and dependent solely on the will and judgment of erring mortals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave market...s, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Had Adam tenderly reproved his wife, and endeavored to lead her to repentance instead of sharing in her guilt, I should be much mo...re ready to accord to man that superiority which he claims; but as the facts stand disclosed by the sacred historian, it appears to me that to say the least, there was as much weakness exhibited by Adam as by Eve. They both fell from innocence, and consequently from happiness, but not from equality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
...I ask no favors for my sex. I surrender not our claim to equality. All I ask of our brethren is, that they will take their feet... from off our necks, and permit us to stand upright on that ground which God designed us to occupy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the sewing societies, the avails of whose industry are now expended in supporting and educating young men for the ministry, wer...e 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 ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If the minds of women were enlightened and improved, the domestic circle would be more frequently refreshed by intelligent convers...ation, a means of edification now deplorably neglected, for want of that cultivation which these intellectual advantages would confer.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare themselves for more extensive usefulne...ss, 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity o...f mind, the heartlessness, the frivolity which is the necessary result of this false and debasing estimate of women, can only be fully understood by those who have mingled in the folly and wickedness of fashionable life ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »