Women Empowerment Mindset & Quotes on Instagram: "The life of Fannie Lou Hamer shows how strength can rise from unimaginable hardship. Born in Mississippi as the twentieth child of sharecroppers, she grew up in deep poverty, wearing hand-me-downs and picking cotton long before childhood had even ended. Her suffering intensified when she was secretly sterilized during a medical procedure without consent. After attempting to vote, she was fired, evicted, arrested, and brutally beaten, carrying lif