Angelina Grimke Quotes

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

I tell you that men will always respect women when they compel it by their actions; and if women today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation the men would be compelled to grant it. The women of the country have the power in their hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

We are, as a sex, infinitely superior to men, and if we were free and developed, healthy in body and mind, as we should be under natural conditions, our motherhood would be our glory. That function gives women such wisdom and power as no male can possess.

The sight of women talking together has always made men uneasy; nowadays it means rank subversion.

In politics women type the letters, lick the stamps, distribute the pamphlets and get out the vote. Men get elected.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

The battle for the individual rights of women is one of long standing and none of us should countenance anything which undermines it.

My mum fought for feminism in her day so instilled in me the importance of equality. She taught me so much about women.

No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.

I must not write a word to you about politics, because you are a woman.

Sensible and responsible women do not want to vote. The relative positions to be assumed by man and woman in the working out of our civilization were assigned long ago by a higher intelligence than ours.

Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.

The women of the country have the power in their own hands, in spite of the law and the government being altogether of the male order.

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

Is it right that your mother, your sister... should be classed with criminals and lunatics...? Is it right that while the loafer, the gambler, the drunkard, and even the wife-beater has a vote, earnest, educated and refined women are denied it?... Is it right... that a mother... should be thought unworthy of a vote that is freely given to the blasphemer, the liar, the seducer, and the profligate?

There is hardly any other sphere in which prejudice and superstition of the most horrific kind have been retained so long as in that of women, and just as it must have been an inexpressable relief for humanity when it shook off the burden of religious prejudice and superstition, I think it will be truly glorious when women become real people and have the whole world open before them.

Women are unfit for parliament and parliament is unfit for them.

I know that many honorable members have viewed the advent of women to the legislative halls with something approaching alarm;

Men regarded women as a servant class in the community, and that women were going to remain in the servant class until they lifted themselves out of it.

We have taken this action, because as women…we realize that the condition of our sex is so deplorable that it is our duty even to break the law in order to call attention to the reasons why we do so.

The women of France interfere in the politics of the Country, and often give a decided Turn to the Fate of Empires.

Do you think it would be possible for women to make a worse mess of politics than the men have?

American women who know the history of this country will always resent the fact that American men chose to enfranchise Negroes fresh from slavery before enhancing their wives and mothers.

War they [women] understand least, and from it they instinctively recoil. There is danger in this situation. Women now have the vote, and they outnumber the men.... In spite of themselves we must protect the ladies!

Well Behaved Women Seldom Make History