Seems a lot of men never saw one such as me. A girl what could keep up and fight and ride and curse with the best of them. A girl what ain’t trapped in some dress or some house or some bed. A girl what ain’t waiting on some man to do what she ought to her own damn self.
J.D.  Jordan, Calamity: Being an Account of Calamity Jane and Her Gunslinging Green Man
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