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“A real man or woman makes circumstances and controls them. They be deterred from doing what duty calls them to! Never! They control their destiny and observe every weaker mind within the square of the distance. I find it easier to coalesce with a person who has been guilty of ennui, and whose lives are proof of their repentance, than these-good-for-nothing aspirants. Anything which you young pump=strutters earnestly wish to be, you can be. God gives every key to a sober demander.”
― Sojourner Truth, Ain't I A Woman?

“Only the BLACK WOMAN can say 'when and where I enter, in the quiet, undisputed dignity of my womanhood, without violence and without suing or special patronage, then and there the whole Negro race enters with me.”
― Sojourner Truth, Ain't I A Woman?

“Talk, without effort, is nothing; you are abundantly capable, gentlemen, of making yourself men of distinction; and this gross neglect, on your part, causes my blood to boil within me.”
― Sojourner Truth, Ain't I A Woman?

“When you view care tasks as moral, the motivation for completing them is often shame.”
― KC Davis