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Angelina Emily Grimké: “Her noble nature is insulted by such paltry, sickening adulation, and she will not stoop to drink the foul waters of so…”

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Her noble nature is insulted by such paltry, sickening adulation, and she will not stoop to drink the foul waters of so turbid a stream.
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Angelina Emily Grimké

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Grimké condemns insincere flattery towards women, asserting that it insults their true nature.

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