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. . . husbands:
"A man's jest like a horse. . .; you've got to break him in and learn
all his gaits and tricks before there's any safety or pleasure travelin'
with him."
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. . . housework:
"Milly Amos used to say that if a woman was to see all the dishes that
she had to wash before she died, piled up before her in one pile, she'd
lie down and die right then and there."
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. . . her meandering stories:
"A young person hasn't got much to remember, and he can start out and
tell a straight tale without any trouble. But an old woman like me—why,
every name I hear starts up some ricollection or other, and that keeps
me goin' first to one side o' the road and then to the other."
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. . . keeping the Sabbath:
"There ain't any religion in restin' unless you're tired, and work's jest
as holy in his sight as rest."
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. . . "submitting" to a husband:
"I've noticed that whenever a woman's willin' to be imposed upon there's
always a man standin' 'round ready to do the imposin'."
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. . . couples with religious differences:
"If a man'd come talkin' church to me, when he ought to have been courtin'
me, I'd 'a' told him to go on and marry a hymn-book or a catechism. I
believe in religion jest as much as anybody, but a man that can't forgit
his religion while he's courtin' a woman ain't
worth havin'."
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. . . motherhood:
"There's such a thing as a woman havin' so many children that she
hasn't got time to be a mother."
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. . . tradition:
"I've noticed that when a thing always has been, most likely it's a
thing that ought never to 'a' been."
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. . . the Scripture:
"The Bible's the word of God. I ain't questionin' that. But it looks like
to
me that there's some o' the words of man in it, too."
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. . . Kentucky's "neutrality" in
the Civil War:
"You might as well put two
game-roosters in the same pen and
tell 'em not to fight as to start up a
war between the North and the South and tell Kentucky to keep out of
it."
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