Lawes Resolutions of Women’s Rights (1632) “In this consolidation we call wedlock is a locking together. It is true, that man and wife are one person, but understand in what manner … a woman as soon as she is married is called covert – that is, veiled, as it were, clouded and overshadowed. I may more truly say to a married woman her new self is her superior, her companion, her master …”

“Patriarchal ideology is a set of ideas that supports the power of men – Anne C. Francis In colonial and national society, men are considered the source of authority in the home, in the government, and in the religious world.

Second Great Awakening

Let us all first wake up the nation to lift millions of slaves … from the dust and turn them into men and then … it will be an easy matter to take millions of females from their knees and set them on their feet, or in other words transform them from babies to women.” - Angelina Grimke

Struggle to Gain Rights “We cannot push abolitionism forward with all our might until we take up the stumbling block out of the road … if we surrender the right to petition next year, and the right to write the year after and so on. What then can woman do for the slave, when she herself is under the feet of man and shamed into silence?” – Angelina Grimke Struggle to Gain Rights

That man over there says that woman needs to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud puddles or gives me any best place. And ain’t I a woman? Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain’t I a woman? I would work as much and eat as much as a man, when I could get it , and bear the lash as well. And ain’t I a woman? I have thirteen children and seem ‘em most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a woman? -Sojourner Truth