The huge Jessie spoke, and her manner was full of dignity and kindness, and her speech was rehearsed. "You shouldn’ think we’re a-buttin’ into your business, Mis’ Joad. This here camp got a lot of stuff ever’body uses. An’ we got rules we made ourself. Now we’re a-goin’ to the unit. That there, ever’body uses, an’ ever’body got to take care of it."
– John Steinbeck
The Grapes of Wrath, Chapter 22. Jessie Bullit is head of the Ladies Committee in Weedpath camp and gives Ma Joad a tour of the facilities. She is portrayed as a confident person who is also kind and dignified.