Complicated Quote by Emily Procter

I think often people don't realize the great diversity of Southern writing because in their minds, if you're not from the South, it can…

— Natasha Trethewey

Southern women sometimes get dumbed down when they're turned into characters. I don't like that.

— Diana DeGarmo

Maybe the example of Southern fiction writing has been so powerful that Southern poets have sort of keyed themselves to that.

— Robert Morgan

I think we Southerners have talked a fair amount of malarkey about the mystique of being Southern.

— Reynolds Price

There's something about Southern characters.

— Sissy Spacek

Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.

— Michael Shaara

I probably had something to do with being southern. For some reason, over the last few years I've been much more conscious of that.…

— William Gibson

In many ways, the South can be very traditional and confining. And what is interesting to me is how women find their way around…

— Connie Britton

So I'm not a Southern writer in the commonly held sense of the term, like Faulkner or Eudora Welty, who took the South for…

— Donna Tartt

Southern women see no point in the hard way. Life is hard enough. So we add a little sugar to the sour. Which is…

— Allison Glock

“ 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

“ “The biggest myth about Southern women is that we are frail types--fainting on our sofas…nobody where I grew up ever acted like that.…

— Deborah Ford