私は女ではないの?
以下はゲイジが『女性参政権の歴史』(History of Woman Suffrage)で回想した演説であり、彼女によると、ソジャーナ・トゥルースが話したとおりに方言交じりで書かれている。
Dat man ober dar say dat womin needs to be helped into carriages, and lifted ober ditches, and to hab de best place everywhar. Nobody eber helps me into carriages, or ober mud-puddles, or gibs me any best place!" And raising herself to her full height, and her voice to a pitch like rolling thunder, she asked. 'And ain't I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! (and she bared her right arm to the shoulder, showing her tremendous muscular power). I have ploughed, and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman?