No Matter What Rallying Cries The Orators

It Doesn’t Matter Who You Marry, As Long As He Thinks Like You And Is A Gentleman And A Southerner And Prideful. For A Woman, Love Comes After Marriage.” “oh, Pa, That’s Such An Old Country Notion!” “and A Good Notion It Is! All This American Business Of Running Around Marrying For Love, Like Servants, Like Yankees! The Best Marriages Are When The Parents Choose For The Girl. For How Can A Silly Piece Like Yourself Tell A Good Man From A Scoundrel?

You Have Eternity In Which To Explain And Only One Night To Be A Martyr In The Amphitheater Get Out, Darling, And Let Me See The Lions Eat You.

That's What's Wrong With You. All Your Beaux Have Respected You Too Much, Though God Knows Why, Or They Have Been Too Afraid Of You To Really Do Right By You. The Result Is That You Are Unendurably Uppity. You Should Be Kissed And By Someone Who Knows How.

I Have A Passionate Desire For Personal Privacy. I Want To Stand Before The World, For Good Or Bad, On The Book I Wrote, Not On What I Say In Letters To Friends, Not On My Husband And My Home Life, The Way I Dress, My Likes And Dislikes, Et Cetera. My Book Belongs To Anyone Who Has The Price, But Nothing Of Me Belongs To The Public.

Land Is The Only Thing In The World That Amounts To Anything, For 'tis The Only Thing In This World That Lasts, 'tis The Only Thing Worth Working For, Worth Fighting For - Worth Dying For.