Kathryn Stockett Quotes

I'm still true to my Southern roots.

There's something sort of intrinsic in being a Southerner that doesn't go away. You can't get rid of it, but it's not something that's terribly obvious.

To be in the South in my first big job was very nostalgic. There is an energy to the way we do things in the South.

I'm Southern to the bone.

I'm from the South, so I tend to tell stories. That's how we express ourselves.

Anything to do with the South resonates with me, because I'm Southern.

There's no such thing as being too Southern.

I don't want to cancel the South out in my life. I carry my Southernness with me. God knows, it's a great place to come from. It's also a place I had to get away from. It is just an endless world for me, so much culture and eccentricity.

I was raised a proper Southern boy.

In the South, everyone speaks, if you know each other or not. I'm raising my daughter more Southern, like how her father and I were raised.

I like being Southern; I like going to Cracker Barrel - I mean, that's just how I am.

I am southern - from the great state of South Carolina. They say, 'You can take the girl out of the South, but you can't take the South out of the girl.' And it's true.

We're just Southern people.

I am proud to be a Southerner.

We could say that people who eat grits, listen to country music, follow stock-car racing, support corporal punishment in the schools, hunt 'possum, go to Baptist churches and prefer bourbon to Scotch are likely to be Southerners.

I am proud to be a Southerner. I think Southern hospitality is very... I don't think it's just a term. I think it really exists. You can come to Savannah, and the people are so sweet and so nice.

I like to think I am well-mannered. If I have the option at a breakfast place, I'll go with the grits. That's how Southern I am.

Even with the fact that I grew up in North Carolina, 'Jim Rash' just screams 'Southern boy.'

Yes, I'm a real southern boy.

You know, Southerners are pretty cool.

There's something about Southern women that is so unique yet so universal. Strong southern women are allowed to be soft and feminine and have a sense of humor. But what I love about Southern women in particular is their universality.

I'm from East Texas, yes.

I feel like I'm a New Yorker to the bone. But there is a lot of the South in me. I know there is a lot of the South in my mannerisms. There's a lot of the South in my expectations of other people and how people treat each other. There's a lot of the South in the way I speak, but it could never be home.

There's a grace about the South and a toughness about it, too.

I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.