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We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle QUOTES

We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle QUOTES

1 " If you buy an SUV, you're buying your safety at the expense of someone else's." ... If you're driving a Hyundai, which basically runs on air and tofu, and you get in an accident with an SUV, are you going to say, "Well, at least I have the courage of my convictions?" Hell, no. You're going to say: "Soon's I get outta this hospital bed and find my legs, I'm gonna get me a Suburban. Loaded. "

― Celia Rivenbark , We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle

2 " Why clone cats when there's perfectly good Russell Crowe lying around? "

― Celia Rivenbark , We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle

3 " A friend confided to me recently that she wasn't sure if it was the 'change,' plain old PMS, or just a slow shift toward embracing her inner witch that is causing her to become progressively more irritated by everything her husband does. "

― Celia Rivenbark , We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle

4 " To the newcomer to the south, hearing that a coworker plans a weekend visit to 'mama and them's' (the correct plural possessive, don'tchaknow), might make him think that mama has been left alone either throught an act of scoundreldom involving the town's resident hoochie-mama (an altogether different kind of mama) or Daddy's untimely demise. "

― Celia Rivenbark , We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle

5 " We are, like our beloved garden greens, sturdy, strong, and best when tested by the elements and fully seasoned. "

― Celia Rivenbark , We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle

6 " Will I stop describing, as only a true Southerner can, a truly awful physical appearance as simply “most unfortunate” as in, “She has a most unfortunate nose”? "

― Celia Rivenbark , We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle