The Best Claire Dutton Quotes

Claire: [uncompassionate reaction to German immigrants succumbing to cholera after drinking unboiled water from the trinity river] Better they die up here than do something on the trail that gets us killed. Only cure for stupid is reaching the gates of heaven.
Margaret: Funny, I don't recall the word "stupid" anywhere in the Bible.

Claire: [Margaret sitting by the fire as Claire walks in] Godless noise. We could be listening to cicadas and frogs by the river, but instead we're listening to this.
Margaret: For once, we're in agreement.

Claire: I have had seven children, and they have all ended up just like this one, in the dirt I kneel beside.

Claire: [disapproving] James, your children are feral. Absolutely feral.
James: Hello, Claire.
Claire: Hi.
James: Sorry to hear about Henry. He was... a patient man.
James: [...] Losing her husband didn't soften her much.
Margaret: Hmph. You could soak that woman in buttermilk for a month and not even soften her a bit.