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Quotation from Ain't I a Woman? by Sojourner Truth
“As for intellect, all I can say is, if woman have a pint and man a quart — why can't she have her little pint full?”
Ain't I a Woman?, The speech (Marius Robinson, Anti-Slavery Bugle (Salem, Ohio), 21 June 1851, p. 160; checked against the Library of Congress Chronicling America scan)
Her famous image of the pint and the quart.
Citation: "As for intellect, all I can say is, if woman have a pint and man a quart — why can't she have her little pint full?" — Sojourner Truth, Ain't I a Woman?, The speech (Marius Robinson, Anti-Slavery Bugle (Salem, Ohio), 21 June 1851, p. 160; checked against the Library of Congress Chronicling America scan). (id sojourner-truth-aint-i-a-woman-q2)
