Category Archives: Southernisms

This Week’s Southernism, Monday, July 16, 2018

Posted on July 16, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” — Alice Walker

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, July 9, 2018

Posted on July 9, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.”   — Alice Walker, The Color Purple

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, July 2, 2018

Posted on July 2, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.” — William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, June 25, 2018

Posted on June 25, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“Men’s stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning. Ladies bathed before noon and after their three o’clock naps. And by nightfall were like soft teacakes with frosting from sweating and sweet talcum. The day was twenty-four hours long, but … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, June 18, 2018

Posted on June 18, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“The air was oppressive even in the early morning hour, hot with the scorching promise of a noon of glaring blue sky and pitiless bronze sun.” —Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind     Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, June 11, 2018

Posted on June 11, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

  “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” —F. Scott Fitzgerald, The … Continue reading →

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, June 4, 2018

Posted on June 4, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“I’m Southern, and I know neurotic behavior.” —Faye Dunaway

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, May 21, 2018

Posted on May 21, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“We Southerners live at a leisurely pace, and sharing our hospitality with our family, friends, and the stranger within our gate is one of our greatest joys.” — Winifred G. Cheney     Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter 

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, May 14, 2018

Posted on May 14, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans.  Everywhere else is Cleveland.”   — Tennessee Williams

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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, May 7, 2018

Posted on May 7, 2018 by Deborah Fagan Carpenter

The Southerner is usually tolerant of those weaknesses that proceed from innocence. — Flannery O’Connor   Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter

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