Quotes on Mud Puddles

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?

And ain't I a woman? I have borne thirteen 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?

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us.