Alexandra’s Reviews > Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc by Mark Twain, Fiction, Classics > Status Update

Joan continued to be alert, vigorous, and confident... All their lives those men had seen womenfolks hitched up with a cow and dragging the plough in the fields while the men did the driving... evidences that women have far more endurance and patience and fortitude than men. It had taught them nothing, they did not reflect that a great soul, with a great purpose, can make a weak body strong and keep it so...