Quote by Tom Rachman

“But she was smart. She was savvy. And most of all, she was Southern.”

— Sarah Addison Allen

“ When a Southern woman has nothing else, she still has her manners. ”

— Deborah Ford

“Of course cher . A proper southern woman never allows a simple misunderstanding get in the way of hospitality.”

— Jaye Wells

“Don’t ever trust a guy with a Southern accent, a lazy smile, and a casual stance, because he’s about to sneak his way into…

— J.C. Reed

“Gran was just being polite. Southern people are supposed to be polite and gracious. She's trying to show me how to be the same…

— Lauraine Snelling

“But if she was going to live in a damn jungle, she preferred it be a damn jungle in Georgia, she always said, and…

— Rick Bragg

“O tell her, Swallow, thou that knowest each, That bright and fierce and fickle is the South, And dark and true and tender is…

— Alfred Lord Tennyson

“This was pretty exotic stuff for a telepathic barmaid from northern Louisiana.”

— Charlaine Harris

“She's got a certain feisty charm for a racist. Not to mention all those great dead-animal stories.”

— Wally Lamb

“Lee was conscious that Nizar watched her trying to adjust her abaya . She knew everyone could tell a Western woman by her awkwardness…

— Leslie Cockburn

“There was no way in hell she was going to move to the southern continent without all of her books.”

— Sarah J. Maas

“look at the now distant coastline. I knew better, however. Her posture told me that she was not yet willing or ready to talk…

— Karen J. Hasley