That man…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 aren't I a woman?…I have ploughed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me—and aren't I a woman?

speech at Women's Rights Convention, Akron, Ohio, 1851