The fact is I'm in a serious jam.

[W]hat should I have done? Gather dirt in my purse?

...I've been told that this building is here waiting for me. It's been my Buckingham Palace, my White House, my Taj Mahal, so coming here today as a real member is - well, it's a big deal.

...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.

I've always liked Anna, but according to my mother, her family is complete New Money, and my grandmother has pointed out on several occasions that they're not even really Southern.

There is life and there is death, but on the border, where one shades into the other, there is the In Between. "...[M]ost people go through life without even knowing that it's there.

I'm named after my great grand-mother...while you've never heard of her, in my mind she's practically a celebrity.

You won't be able to find it out for yourself in any library or archive, either, because my grandmother has carefully and systematically destroyed every shred of evidence.

If not for her truly sparkling personality, she would have been doomed.

[W]hat my grandmother and my mother and I all know is that our beauty is no miracle. It is bought and paid for.

[M]y grandmother...had always complained that our house didn't have a profile that was "significant enough.

How to raise sons who respect women:Never give them the opportunity to see you disrespect yourself.

They explored me high enough as mountain climbers reached the mountain tops.

There is no value in your promises. They are as hollow as fangs and poisonous as the venom within them once I allowed them into my heart.

You know and I know that the country is celebrating one hundred years of freedom one hundred years too early. We cannot be free until they are free.

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.

A Louisiana politician can't afford to let his animosities carry him away, and still less his principles, although there is seldom difficulty in that department.

A grid is like underwear, you wear it but it's not to be exposed.

I have always liked the contrast between being blonde and having dark features.