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New Times In The Old South: Or Why Scarlett's in Therapy & Tara's Going Condo QUOTES

1 " I keep hearing all these jokes on TV about how people in Arkansas are still barefoot hillbillies. Sure there are plenty of people living up in the hills and mountains on Arkansas. Why not? The scenery is breathtaking from their million-dollar houses up in those hills. Those people bought Wal-Mart stock early. They paid cash for those homes.
-Little Rock resident on how some people from "up North" view Arkansas "

― , New Times In The Old South: Or Why Scarlett's in Therapy & Tara's Going Condo

2 " It's not the impression you make, it's the impression you leave.

-A Tennessee woman remembering her Old Southern grandmother "

― , New Times In The Old South: Or Why Scarlett's in Therapy & Tara's Going Condo

3 " ...Southern women are impossible to live with because they will never find a man who treats them like their daddy did. "

― , New Times In The Old South: Or Why Scarlett's in Therapy & Tara's Going Condo

4 " Get up every day and consider the stage you're on. Only you can decide whether it will be a tragedy, a comedy or a drama. "

― , New Times In The Old South: Or Why Scarlett's in Therapy & Tara's Going Condo

5 " Don't men in the South have gray hair? she asked.
Yes, but their mothers are blonde. "

― , New Times In The Old South: Or Why Scarlett's in Therapy & Tara's Going Condo

6 " Just go into any 'home cooking' restaurant in any town you're visiting. If the menu lists macaroni and cheese as a vegetable-- you know you're in the South. "

― , New Times In The Old South: Or Why Scarlett's in Therapy & Tara's Going Condo

7 " The first thing the therapist asked me was, 'Are you here because you're depressed?' I said, 'Not at all--I'm here because I'm Southern.'" Anne Herndon "

― , New Times In The Old South: Or Why Scarlett's in Therapy & Tara's Going Condo

8 " That's right honey...It's much easier to follow the bitch than it is to follow the saint. "

― , New Times In The Old South: Or Why Scarlett's in Therapy & Tara's Going Condo