Brittany

“Just then both goats looked up at the window and shook their heads as if they would say "How d'ye do, old friend?" "See, Madam Elizabeth," exclaimed the President in a tone of enthusiasm, "my pets recognize me. How earnestly they look! There they go again; what jolly fun!" and he laughed outright as the goats bounded swiftly to the other side of the yard. Just then Mrs. Lincoln called out, "Come, Lizabeth; if I get ready to go down this evening I must finish dressing myself, or you must stop staring at those silly goats.”
― Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the Scenes Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House

“I was regarded as fair-looking for one of my race, and for four years a white man—I spare the world his name—had base designs upon me. I do not care to dwell upon this subject, for it is one that is fraught with pain. Suffice it to say, that he persecuted me for four years, and I—I—became a mother. The child of which he was the father was the”
― Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the Scenes Or, Thirty Years a Slave and Four Years in the White House

“What a sublime picture was this! A ruler of a mighty nation going to the pages of the Bible with simple Christian earnestness for comfort and courage, and finding both in the darkest hours of a nation’s calamity. Ponder it, O ye scoffers at God’s Holy Word, and then hang your heads for very shame!”
― Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty Years a Slave, And Four Years in the White House

“No; eternal slavery rather than be regarded with distrust by those whose respect I esteemed.”
― Elizabeth Keckley, Behind the Scenes: Or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House