Perhaps nothing is so depressing an index of the inhumanity of the male-supremacist mentality as the fact that the more genial hum...an traits are assigned to the underclass: affection, response to sympathy, kindness, cheerfulness.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Dat man ober dar say dat womin needs to be helped into carriages, and lifted ober ditches, and to hab de best place everywhar. Nob...ody eber helps me into carriages, or ober mud-puddles, or gibs me any best place! And a'n'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 a'n't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man--when I could get it--and bear de lash as well! And a'n't I a woman? I have borne thirteen chilern, and seen 'em mos' all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother's grief, none but Jesus heard me! And a'n't I a woman?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »