"This very act of planting a seed in the earth has in it to me something beautiful. I always do it with a joy that is largely mixed with awe."

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Wrought upon at length, you may say, by an enthusiasm and frenzy that could brook no control - I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe, and clandestinely, or by stealth, grasped an opportunity, which custom and the world seemed to deny, as a natural privilege.

— Deborah Sampson