I feel like 'embattled' or 'disgraced' will always follow my name. It's like that black football player who recently came out.

Talking about money is garish. It's tacky.

I've got two vices: cigarettes and taters.

I loved my own Grandparents with all my heart. I learned important lessons from them about how to treat people, how to cook and how to work.....they showered us kids with love and left the parenting to Momma and Daddy. That's the beauty of being a grandparent - the hard work belongs to someone else. I guess I never really understood the depth of their love for me until I became a grandmother myself... it is unlike any other relationship.

You can have diabetes and have a piece of cake. You cannot have diabetes and eat a whole cake.

I will never use a substitute for butter. Margarine is one molecule away from eating plastic.

Down South, even our vegetables have some pig hidden somewhere in it. A vegetable isn't a vegetable without a little ham hock.