No woman, who understands her dignity as a moral, intellectual, and accountable being, cares aught for any attention or any protection, vouchsafed by ‘the promptings of chivalry, and the poetry of romantic gallantry’?
Grimké asserts that a woman who understands her worth does not seek validation through superficial gestures of chivalry.
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My doctrine then is, that whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do.
Surely you believe that his aim is not shortened that he cannot save.
Send us facts--send us kind remonstrance and manly reasoning.
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