Cartoon published in The Liberator . Published in The Liberator , 1837. My doctrine then is, that whatever it is morally right for man to do, it is morally right for woman to do. Sarah Grimke, September, 1837. Published in The Liberator.
Woman has no political existence.
The husband, by the old law, might give his wife moderate correction, as he is to answer for her behavior. The law thought it reasonable to entrust him with this power of retraining her by domestic chastisement. The courts will still permit a husband to restrain a wife of her liberty, in case of any gross misbehavior. A woman s personal property by marriage becomes absolutely her husband s which, at his death, he may leave entirely away from her. The men frame the laws and with few exceptions, claim to execute them on both sexes.