Like others before them, the Grimke sisters attempted to vote in 1870 when Sarah was nearly 80. This was only another in a lifetime of daring and courageous acts. She and her sister Angelina were the first women to speak before the Massachusetts Legislature in 1838. She had taught herself, using her brother’s books, until her mother and father put a stop to it. Fortunately for history it was too late. She had already ignited the brilliant mind within herself. Even her father admitted she had the potential to become foremost among the legal minds of that era, HAD SHE NOT BEEN A WOMAN. She used her brains and her voice in both public speaking and in writing, at a time in this country when doing those things was an open challenge to the authority of a male dominated society, who did not want to consider that women had anything of consequence to say and SHOULD NOT BE HEARD!
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