A Woman

Not Necessarily Relevant Quote of the Week:

That man over there says that women need 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 arm! I have plowed, 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, at an 1851 woman's rights convention

Not Necessarily Relevant Quote of the Week:

That man over there says that women need 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 arm! I have plowed, 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, at an 1851 woman's rights convention

Comments

[Jonathan]

The amazing thing is that this was only a few generations ago in America. We have come a VERY long way. Just wait, the best is yet to come.