" We began by browsing Flora’s library of etiquette books, which included some charming first editions from Emily Post, as well as a few signed copies of Letitia Baldrige classics. I cracked a bunch of self-deprecating jokes about my scatterbrained ways because that’s what my mom and I do when we’re nervous, but Flora’s plump cheeks remained frozen in a polite smile as she paused to let me finish and then returned to reading her favorite lines aloud: “Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory.” “The attributes of a great lady may still be found in the rule of the four S’s: sincerity, simplicity, sympathy, and serenity. "

― Rachel Held Evans , A Year of Biblical Womanhood