Aint I a woman?

I believe Sojourner Truth's Ain't I a Woman speech to be one of the most awe-inspiring of it's kind on so many different levels. The bravery, valor, and inspiration she showed presenting this speech in front of the crowd she did as well as the historical time made her incredible talk all the more empowering. She took all the information that men at that time had been using to hold women as well as slaves back from gaining status in society and flipped it back on them. My favorite part is that Truth was also kind of going against the feminists present showing that she too was a woman and she wasn't even granted the rights of rights of the women there fighting for more rights. She called on the things women of that time took for granted like being helped out of carriages or carried over ditches - these things today would be considered to some "gentlemanly" while other women would take great offense to this however, that's not the point. The point is that Truth while being a woman and doing more manual labor then most men of that time had no rights but ain't she a woman?

Going along the lines of Valenti Truth uses men to define her womanhood, she shows her muscular arm to prove that she has power and says that no man could head her. Is it bad that she does this? She goes onto talk about the 13 kids she had and how there was no one there for her when she was suffering except jesus.

Her mention of Jesus is what begins the real kicker in the argument religion, where did Jesus come from? All men are born from women? She then goes on to reference how Eve (a woman) turned the whole world upside down and how it has to be the women to flip it right side up again.