Quote by Deborah Ford

Southerners have a genius for psychological alchemy...If something intolerable simply cannot be changed, driven away or shot they will not only tolerate it but…

— Florence King

“Southerners have a lot to be proud of. We have survived, and we have overcome. Southern women, especially, have learned to be proud of…

— Deborah Ford

“You learn to forgive (the South) for its narrow mind and growing pains because it has a huge heart. You forgive the stifling summers…

— Amanda Kyle Williams

Southerners have many fine qualities, charm and civility among them, and a sense of the tragic....

— Dean Koontz

“ “It doesn’t matter where you go in the South, because the whole South seems to be married to one another.” --Marlyn Swartz, Texas…

— Deborah Ford

Southerners have this love of embellishment. Even when you read a police report, there's some backstory.

— Karin Slaughter

“But we southerners know that you can insult someone as much as you want so long as you add that "bless her heart" to…

— Katherine Allred

“I'll be certain to feel superior as they hurl insults and rocks in my direction." "I thought southern people were supposed to be warm…

— Andrea Laurence

We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go…

— John Shelton Reed

I’ll always marvel at the liveliness of southern speech-so full of metaphor and hyperbole, quirks and vividness.

— Frances Mayes

“… a Southerner is BORN into the lifestyle, there just ain’t no choice about it. Yer either a Southerner or ya ain’t.”

— Chad B Hanson

“We Southerners are a strong lot. Like our ancestors before us, we will survive. I will never lose faith. I am standing on the…

— Nancy B. Brewer