Famous quotes containing the words slave and/or women:
“This is the monstruosity in love, ladythat the will is infinite and the execution confined; that the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit.”
—William Shakespeare (15641616)
“One of the duties which devolve upon women in the present interesting crisis, is to prepare themselves for more extensive usefulness, by making use of those religious and literary privileges and advantages that are within their reach, if they will only stretch out their hands and possess them.”
—Sarah M. Grimke (17921873)