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61 " She was a poetess of profanity, an oracle of epithets who could outcuss a bathroom wall. Unlike most women I have known, she placed no value on shallow pretensions or hypocritical displays of gentility "
― Pat Conroy , The Water is Wide
62 " In no way had my mother with her air of gentility and fine breeding prepared me for the Ida Skimberrys of the world. "