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I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did betray my own soul.

I am a planter - a cotton planter. I am a Southern man and a slaveholder - a kind and a merciful one, I trust - and none the worse for being a slaveholder.

A woman would rather visit her own grave than the place where she has been young and beautiful after she is aged and ugly.

I declare I would rather be a kitten and cry, 'Mew!' than live as I see many of my female acquaintances do, tearing each other's characters to pieces, and wearing out their lives in vanity and vexation of spirit.

I wouldn't want to be reincarnated as a butler. I couldn't for the life of me do the job in real life.

After my mistress was dead, I lived most comfortably, my master having a great affection for me.

In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

There are many times when I think I would have rather died with my husband. It would have been pleasanter, simpler. But it would have been worse for the children and the family in general.

I would rather the man who presents something for my consideration subject me to a zephyr of truth and a gentle breeze of responsibility rather than blow me down with a curtain of hot wind.

I would rather be a fairly happy wife and mother.