![]() ![]() Sarah’s abhorrence of her gift fueled her abolitionist sentiments and inspired her mission in life. The Invention of Wings is a fictionalized account by Sue Monk Kidd of the lives of Sarah Grimké, her sister and godchild Angelina Grimké Weld, and the slave Sarah received as a gift for her 11th birthday, Hetty known affectionately as Handful. The Trump era has been brutal for people of color and women. Now, sirs, kindly take your feet off our necks. Do what you have to do, censure us, withdraw your support, we’ll press on anyway. ![]() ![]() How can you ask us to go back to our parlors? To turn our backs on ourselves and on our own sex? We don’t wish the movement to split, of course we don’t ~ it saddens me to think of it ~ but we can do little for the slave as long as we’re under the feet of men. Weld’s and John Whittier’s attempt to silence her feminist ideals has been infamously quoted by the Notorious RBG, the future Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Gisburg: Sarah Grimké had endured the muzzle her entire life, and she was done. ![]()
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