"Byron, who was too sensual to conceive of a pure and perfect companionship between the sexes, would limit a woman's library to a Bible and cookery book."
Sarah Moore Grimké
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book | august 1, 1837
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“The truth has never been told about women in history: that everywhere man has gone woman has gone too, and what he has done she has done also.”Pearl S. Buck novelist + Nobel laureate
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Thomas Phillips painted this fanciful portrait of the famously "sensual" Romantic poet + creator of the character "Don Juan" ~ Lord Byron.
Thomas Phillips | The National Portrait Gallery | public domain |
Sarah grew up Episcopalian, but avidly studied Quakerism. Her abolitionism and feminism were Christian-based. In her many speeches and writings, Sarah offered brilliant reinterpretations of the Bible that read the holy book as the basis for equal rights + social justice ~ maybe it is a dangerous book for women to read after all...
Leon Books | public domain |