Southern Women Quotes

• The most beautiful voice in the world is that of an educated Southern woman.

  Winston Churchill

  Beautiful, Voice, Southern

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• Southern women can say more with a cut of their eyes than a whole debate club’s worth of speeches.

  Allison Glock

  Eye, Cutting, Southern

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• Southern girls are God's gift to the entire male population. There is absolutely no woman finer than one raised below the mason-dixon line and once you go southern may the good Lord help you - you never go back

  Kenny Chesney

  Girl, Country, Southern

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• I had a right to my own political opinions. I am a Southern woman, born with Revolutionary blood in my veins. Freedom of speech and of thought were my birthright, guaranteed, signed and sealed by the blood of our fathers.

  Rose O'Neal Greenhow

  Freedom, Father, War

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• Southern women see no point in the hard way. Life is hard enough. So we add a little sugar to the sour. Which is not to suggest Southern women are disingenuous cream puffs. Quite the opposite. When you are born into a history as loaded as the South’s, when you carry in your bones the incontrovertible knowledge of man’s violence and limitations, daring to stay sweet is about the most radical thing you can do.

  Allison Glock

  Sweet, Men, Opposites

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• To be born a Southern woman is to be made aware of your distinctiveness. And with it, the rules. The expectations. These vary some, but all follow the same basic template, which is, fundamentally, no matter what the circumstance, Southern women make the effort. Which is why even the girls in the trailer parks paint their nails. And why overstressed working moms still bake three dozen homemade cookies for the school fund-raiser. And why you will never see Reese Witherspoon wearing sweatpants. Or Oprah take a nap.

  Allison Glock

  Girl, Mom, School

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• It was the first time, in the West Wing, I had ever read anyone write a Southerner properly. Because Southern women, in my opinion, are complicated and are equally feminine and driven. That's kind of an unusual combination and people usually tend to get it wrong.

  Emily Procter

  Writing, People, Southern

  Source: www.empireonline.com

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• There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.

  Connie Britton

  Strong, Unique, Southern

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't do drugs. Because my grandmother raised me. I think like an old, black, Southern woman. If I'd have done coke, I'd probably be cooking pancakes.

  Paul Mooney

  Grandmother, Thinking, Southern

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• As Gloria Steinem said about Ginger Rogers: She was doing everything Fred Astaire was doing, just doing it backwards in high heels. Well, Southern women are doing and enduring what other women have to do and endure, but (at least until recently) they had to do it in heels and hats and white gloves and makeup and a sweet smile, with maybe a glass of bourbon and a cigarette to get them through the magnolia part of being a steel magnolia.

  Michael Malone

  Sweet, Makeup, White

  "January Magazine", January 2002.

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• Southern women like their men religious and a little mad.

  Michael Shaara

  Religious, Men, Mad

  Jeff Shaara, Michael Shaara (2012). “The Civil War Trilogy 3-Book Boxset (Gods and Generals, The Killer Angels, and The Last Full Measure)”, p.509, Ballantine Books

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• All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'.

  Willa Cather

  Paris, Brave, Southern

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• Martin Scorsese was one of the few who had not been an assistant. Most of the guys had been an assistant and worked their way up. But I had seen an underground picture he had made in New York, a black-and-white film. I had done a picture for American International, about a Southern woman bandit, the Ma Barker story, and it was very successful, and I had left to start my own company, and they wanted me to make another one.

  Roger Corman

  Successful, Guy, Southern

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• I don't know how it is up North, of course, but down South there are times when Southern women feel a need for privacy.

  John Lee Mahin

  Women, Up North, Southern

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• I was surprised when I was asked to play Miss Daisy and wondered if I could - only in part because she was Jewish but, also because she was a Southern woman who has hardly opened her mouth before she declares she's not prejudiced, and yet everything she does shows how totally prejudiced she is.

  Vanessa Redgrave

  Play, Southern, Missing

  "The Saturday interview: Vanessa Redgrave". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2011.

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• Sex and racism have always been tied together. Look at the thousands of black men who got lynched and castrated. The reason the Klan came into being was to protect white southern women.

  Spike Lee

  Sex, Men, White

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• I feel like if you're a girl in the South, you know 'Gone with the Wind' better than anything. Scarlett O'Hara is such a quintessential Southern woman.

  Leslie Bibb

  Girl, Wind, Southern

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Father, Men, Knowing

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.57

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• There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Home, Female Role Models, Southern

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