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“All history attests that man has subjected woman to his will, used her as a means to promote his selfish gratification, to minister to his sensual pleasures, to be instrumental in promoting his comfort; but never has he desired to elevate her to that rank she was created to fill. He has done all he could to debase and enslave her mind; and now he looks triumphantly on the ruin he has wrought, and say, the being he has thus deeply injured is his inferior.”

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Book:Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker
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Letters on the equality of the sexes, and the condition of woman: Addressed to Mary S. Parker

This book explores the themes of gender equality and the societal conditions of women through a series of letters written to Mary S. Parker. more

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Sarah Moore Grimke

Sarah Moore Grimke was a prominent 19th-century American writer and social activist. Born on November 26, 1792, and died on December 23, 1873, Grimke is known for her radical stance on women's rights and the abolition of slavery. Her writings and speeches had a profound impact on the women's rights movement that followed. more

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