Community Quote by Colson Whitehead

“ It is a special vanity of Southern women to believe that they are different from other American women.” -Sharon McKern, author of Redneck…

— Deborah Ford

“Cora, the daughter of Isidore Levinson, a dry goods millionaire from Cincinnati, arrived in England in 1888, when she was 20 years old, with…

— Jessica Fellowes

“The party was at its peak and everyone was taking full advantage of the moment. Each lady had her eye on a certain marked…

— Jettie Necole

“The truth was that I didn’t know how I felt about my long-lost baby sister being in Ashland, much less the fact that she…

— Jennifer Estep

“Becky was a weed.  Nobody ever wanted them taking over the bigger, prettier plants.  People went to all extremes to make them go away. …

— Ruth McLeod-Kearns

“The early settlers amazed her--they had pluck, they led lives of sweaty drama. Theirs was a world of corsets and whipping posts and indentured…

— Jennifer Vanderbes

“Either the woman was incredibly malleable and naive—or she may have been open to enticement, no matter what she told the authorities. Hers is…

— Gaiutra Bahadur

She was one of those Southerners who knew from an early age that the South could never be more for them than a fragrant…

— Pat Conroy

“Rosie and Mary had taken only a 10 percentage of this privilege - they were three minutes late leaving their room and took the…

— Jane Smiley

“I concealed the burned spot in a fold of skirt, thinking how odd it was that everyone regarded women as inherently harmless. Had I…

— Diana Gabaldon

“the way small Mrs. Tarleton bullied her grown sons and laid her riding crop on their backs if the occasion seemed to warrant it.”

— Margaret Mitchell

“Your own name isn’t half-bad. Bet you don’t know what Loretta means.” Rachel folded the dough over, then glanced up with a teasing grin.…

— Catherine Anderson