Alchemy Quote by Florence King

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

— Deborah Ford

“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

The nice thing about Southerners is the way we enjoy our neuroses.

— Florence King

There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's…

— Natalie Zea

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

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

— Dean Koontz

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

— Karin Slaughter

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

Southern people are bigger-hearted and kinder than I had any right to expect.

— John Oliver

Southerners will be polite until they are angry enough to kill you.

— John Shelton Reed

Professional Southerners sicken me.

— Barry Hannah