I have become Grumpy....

IstaghfarAllah lately everything and everyone is getting on my last nerve. I am so bothered and frustrated but I can't vent. There is no one I can talk to and thats when I must turn to Allah the most. I am no fun to be around anymore and quiet frankly I like that, yeah I do. I don't want to be around anyone or anyone be around me. I want to be ALONE! I don't know how that will help my situation but lately I am tired of people and conversations. Insha'allah I will get through this must get through this soon! I think my dream might actually come true by the time I am back to normal and then nobody will be around me, YIKES!! Any suggestions on what I should do or what helps you when you're frustrated and tired of everyone (if that has ever happened to you, if not imagine hehe). Until the light of patience and content shines on me I will continue to be GRUMPY.

Ain't I A Women

AIN'T I A WOMAN?

by Sojourner Truth

Delivered 1851 at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio

Well, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that 'twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what's all this here talking about?

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? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain't I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man - when I could get it - and bear the lash as well! 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?

Then they talk about this thing in the head; what's this they call it? [member of audience whispers, "intellect"] That's it, honey. What's that got to do with women's rights or negroes' rights? If my cup won't hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn't you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?

Then that little man in black there, he says women can't have as much rights as men, 'cause Christ wasn't a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.

If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back , and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.

Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain't got nothing more to say.

I hope you enjoyed this speech as much as I did. I heard about this wonderful women and her speech in my English class and couldn't help but share it :)