There ain't nothin' from the outside can lick any of us.

What is there to see in Europe? I'll bet those foreigners can't show us a thing we haven't got right here in Georgia.

And apologies, once postponed, become harder and harder to make, and finally impossible.

Until you've lost your reputation, you never realize what a burden it was.

I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

It was not often that she was alone like this and she did not like it. When she was alone she had to think and, these days, thoughts were not so pleasant.

It was this feminine conspiracy which made Southern society so pleasant. Women knew that a land where men were contented, uncontradicted ans safe in possession of unpunctured vanity was likely to be a very pleasant place for women to live. So, from the cradle to the grave, women strove to make men pleased with themselves, and the satisfied men repaid lavishly with gallantry and adoration. In fact, men willingly gave ladies everything in the world except credit for having intelligence.