| "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 a�nt I a woman? Look at my arms! I have ploughed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And a�nt 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 a�nt I a woman? I have borne thirteen children and seen em most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother�s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And a�nt I a woman?" -Sojourner Truth |