Southern Girl Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old southern girl quotes, southern girl sayings, and southern girl proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

If growing up is painful for the southern black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. Maya Angelou
Southern women like their men religious and a little mad. Michael Shaara
She was so southern that she cried tears that came straight from the mississippi, and she always smelled faintly of cottonwood and peaches. Sarah Addison Allen
Southern women often marry a man knowing that he is the father of many little slaves. They do not trouble themselves about it. Harriet Ann Jacobs
Southern women are impossible to live with because they will never find a man who treats them like their daddy did. Maryln Schwartz
Hold it right there. The only agreement we ever had was that you intended to make me as miserable as possible, and I intended to courageously make the best of an intolerable situation like valiant southern women have always done. Susan Elizabeth Phillips
The real me is a southern girl with her Levis on and an open heart. Wish I could save the world, like I was super girl. Jessica Simpson
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. Connie Britton
You have to understand that women in the south, women of southern blood, just don't partake in scandalous adventures and when we do, it's in a discreet manner. We have reputations to consider, after all. Beth Albright
I realized early on that it was important to have those values, a morality and ethics that come with being southern girl. The way you treat people, little things, the niceties like hellos, like courtesy. They mean something. Sarah Shahi
I feel so fortunate. I was brought up along the beaches in southern california, and then got to have horses. Bo Derek
Southern women can say more with a cut of their eyes than a whole debate club's worth of speeches. Allison Glock
For breakfast I have grits, because I'm a southern girl! Shanola Hampton
In the beginning of the war, southern women wanted their men to leave in droves, and as quickly as possible. They were the confederate army's most persuasive and effective recruitment officers, shaming anyone who shirked his duty to fight. Karen Abbott
I'm a southern girl. I like when they open the door and pull out a chair. I'm really into a man's man. Brooke Burns
Southern girls are God's gift to the entire male population. There is absolutely no woman finer than one raised below the mason-dixon line and once you go southern may the good Lord help you never go back. Kenny Chesney
There is nothing like Southern hospitality. It's such a beautiful and genuine thing. Abigail Spencer
That sinuous southern life, that oblique and slow and complicated old beauty, that warm thick air and blood warm sea, that place of mists and languor and fragrant richness. Anne Rivers Siddons
You have to understand that women in the South, women of Southern blood, just don't partake in scandalous adventures, and when we do, it's in a discreet manner. We have reputations to consider, after all. Blake O'Hara Heart
I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged. Faye Dunaway
You know what southern women are? Whiskey in a teacup. We're strong in the inside but ornate on the outside. Hannah Brown
I don't know how it is up North, of course, but down South, there are times when Southern women feel a need for privacy. John Lee Mahin
Southern hospitality and Amish cooking Y'all Come Back, Danki. Karen Harper
Southern girls are God's gift to the entire male population. There is absolutely no woman finer than one raised below the Mason-Dixon line and once you go southern may the good Lord help you never go back. Kenny Chesney
There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters. Madeleine M. Kunin
I like southern girls. They talk so slow that by the time they say no, I made it already. Rodney Dangerfield
Southern Mamas are known for being subtle, like a freight train. Shellie Rushing Tomlinson
All Southern women wished of their menfolk was simply to be 'like Paris handsome and like Hector brave'. Willa Cather
The most beautiful voice in the world is that of an educated Southern woman. Winston Churchill