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#1: Quote by Sarah Grimke from


Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women

I ask no favor for my sexAll I ask our brethren [brothers] is that they will take
their feet from our necks, and permit us to stand upright on that ground which
God designed us to occupy.
1. What metaphor does Sarah Grimke use to explain how men are treating women? What
do you think she means by this metaphor?

Gallery Walk: The Suffragist Movement

#2: Quote by Margaret Fuller

Let it not be said, whenever there is energy or creative genius, She has a
masculine mind.
1. According to Margaret Fuller, what do others consider masculine?
2. Why do you think Fuller has an issue with this assumption?

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#3: Quote by Sojourner Truth from


Her Aint I a Woman? Speech

That man over here says that women need to be helped into carriages and
lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps
me into carriages or over mud puddles, or gives me a best placeLook at me! I
have ploughed and planted andno man could [outwork] me. And aint I a
woman?
1. According to Sojourner Truth, how does society view womens place? How are they
supposed to be treated?
2. How does Sojourner Truth argue against this view? What does she say she can do better
than men?

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#4: Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft from


Her book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman

I do not wish [women] to have power over men, but power over themselves.
1. For what is Mary Wollstonecraft arguing? Does she believe women are better than
men?

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#5: Quote by Lucy Stone

But, whatever the reason, the idea was born that women could and should be
educated. It lifted a mountain load from woman. It shattered the idea,
everywhere pervasive as the atmosphere, that women were incapable of
education, and would be less womanly, less desirable in every way, if they had
it.
1. What did Lucy Stone say people used to think about educating women?
2. What does she believe?

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#6: Quote by Susan B. Anthony

I do not demand equal pay for any woman save those who do equal work in
value. Scorn to be coddled by your employers; make them understand that you
are in their service as workers, not as women.
1. Does Susan B. Anthony think that women should be treated better than men just
because they are women? Why or why not?

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#7: Quote by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

The prolonged slavery of women is the darkest page in human history.


1. What does Elizabeth Cady Stanton compare the oppression of women to?
2. Do you agree with her? Why or why not?

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#8: Quote by Lucretia Mott

The world has never yet seen a truly great and virtuous nation because in the
degradation of woman the very fountains of life are poisoned at their source.
1. What does Lucretia Mott say has stopped all nations from being great?
2. Do you believe a nation can be great if it is oppressing any of its people? Explain.

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