• At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.

    Sarah Moore Grimke: At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.
    Letter to Harriot Hunt (1853), as quoted in "The Grimké Sisters from South Carolina: Pioneers for Woman's [sic] Rights and Abolition" by Gerda Lerner, Editorial Oxford University Press, (p. 241), 1998.