Martha Beall Mitchell quotes

I don't believe in that "no comment" business. I always have a comment. (Martha Beall Mitchell)

Any woman who tries to influence a man in subtle ways is a fool. Every woman should influence her man, but she should do it as a full and open partner-and not in some secret fashion.

Martha Beall Mitchell

I wanted to go into dramatics and become an actress, but my mother wouldn't let me.

Martha Beall Mitchell

Any time you get somebody marching in the streets, it's catering to revolution. It started with the colored people in the South. Now other groups are taking to the streets. We could have worked out the integration battle without allowing them to march. My family worked for everything we had. We even have a deed from the King of England for property in South Carolina. Now these jerks come along and try to give it to the Communists.

Martha Beall Mitchell

I never would have been in a predicament like I am if I hadn't...left the South.

Martha Beall Mitchell

When Martha Mitchell's runaway tongue provoked demands that Husband John silence her (TIME, Dec. 5), the Attorney General responded with the bemused suggestion that she speak henceforth in Swahili.

Martha Beall Mitchell