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Sarah Moore Grimke Quotes:

Ocupation: Writer

Life: November 26, 1792 - December 23, 1873

Birthday: November 26

Death: December 23

Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of 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.

- Sarah Moore Grimke

source: "Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman" by Sarah Moore Grimke, Letter 8, 1837.

topic: Heart, Men, Mind, Frivolity, Heartlessness, Vacuity

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