Quote#Happiness
Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as…
Quote bySarah Grimké · 1792–1873
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Letters on the Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Woman (1837), Letter 8 (1837)..
English (original)
Fashionable women regard themselves, and are regarded by men, as pretty toys or as mere instruments of pleasure; and the vacuity of mind, the heartlessness, the frivolity which is the necessary result of this false and debasing estimate of women, can only be fully understood by those who have mingled in the folly and wickedness of fashionable life.
— Sarah Grimké
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