Sojourner Truth
Born
Swartekill, New York, The United States
Died
November 26, 1883
Genre
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“If women want rights more than they got, why don't they just take them, and not be talking about it.”
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“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! And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! And ain't I a woman? I have borne five children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain't I a woman?”
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Polls
May Short Story/Novella Poll
The Gentle Spirit by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 48 pages, 1876
The Aloe by Katherine Mansfield, 112 pages, 1930
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