Quote by Sojourner Truth
"That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place."
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"I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman?"
"If women want any rights more than they's got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it."
"I feel safe; nothing can happen to me."
"I have as much muscle as any man, and can do as much work as any man. I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns."