The only choice permitted us is either to be servants for $7 a week or to portray them for $700 per week.
I'm letting no man handle my bank account.
I'd rather make $700 a week playing a maid than earn $7 a day being a maid.
A woman's gifts will make room for her.
As for those grapefruit and buttermilk diets, I'll take roast chicken and dumplings.
In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book