“Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be
“My wife is the kind of girl who will not go anywhere without her mother, and her mother will go anywhere
“Some are kissing mothers and some are scolding mothers, but it is love just the same, and most mothers kiss and scold together
“The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.
“What kind of household do kids grow up in that they think they can tie a doll in a noose and it would not affect people? If there were more education about slavery and lynching, people wouldn't do this
“Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.
“Marriage brings one into fatal connection with custom and tradition, and traditions and customs are like the wind and weather, alltogether incalculable
“Nothing is to me more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new-married couple