I resolved to claim for my sex all that an impartial Creator had bestowed, which, by custom and a perverted application of the Scriptures, had been wrested from woman.
Source: In Biography of Distinquished Women, by Sarah Josepha Hale, 1876.
-- Lucretia Mott, (Jan 3 1793-1880), US social reformer; She was a leader in the anti-slavery movement and co-founded the U.S. women's rights movement.