Don't think that because you have to go down in the wash-tub that you are any less a lady!
I had to make my own living and my own opportunity. But I made it!
As I bent over the washboard and looked at my arms buried in soapsuds, I said to myself, 'What are you going to do when you grow old and your back gets stiff?' This set me to thinking, but with all my thinking I couldn't see how a poor washerwoman was going to better my condition.
I have made it possible for many colored women to abandon the washtub for a more pleasant and profitable occupation.
