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 thirteen children and seen them 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?

Sojourner Truth, “Ain’t I a Woman” speech during a women’s convention in Akron, Ohio, in 1851. Quoted in Angela Y Davis’s Women, Race and Class (61).

The bold part jumped out at me and I think I could slot the quote in Chapter 3? My Chapter 3 is an idea still but I can definitely see how it fits into that giant puzzle. Need to remind myself of this.