Deborah Sampson Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“I burst the tyrant bands, which held my sex in awe.”
-- Deborah Sampson

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“I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery path of female delicacy, to walk upon the heroic precipice of feminine perdition!”
-- Deborah Sampson

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“Why can I not fight for my country too?”
-- Deborah Sampson

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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

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