"Women, newspaper women, have to get over that habit of quitting — it's fatal. And she mustn’t cry — if she belong[s] …"

"Some of her best friends protested [Grimké speaking in mixed gatherings of men and women]. It was not "proper," nor "…"

"There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea tha…"

"I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman…"

"When I entered Allegheny College in the fall of 1876 I made my first contact with the past. I had been born and reare…"

"I realized at the start that I had found what I had come to college for, direction in the only field in which I was i…"

"In spite of my painful efforts to make a regular worker out of myself, life at college was lightened by my discovery …"

"I did not dance-the Methodist discipline forbade it. I was incredibly stupid and uninterested in games-still am. I ha…"

"economic independence-the first plank in my platform."

"When a woman enters the office of a great daily she is painfully conscious that she is a woman — just a woman. She ca…"