You know that you are a teacher when you spend more money on school stuff than you do on your own children.

I used to say that whenever people heard my Southern accent, they always wanted to deduct 100 IQ points.

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.

You may be a redneck if... your lifetime goal is to own a fireworks stand.

You know you're a redneck if your home has wheels and your car doesn't.

You might be a redneck if...your belt buckle weighs more than three pounds.

Pride is the first step in people unraveling and companies unraveling and relationships unraveling.

If your idea of a 7 course meal is a bucket of KFC and a sixpack, you might be a redneck.

You might be a redneck if your grandmother can correctly execute the sleeper hold.

Watching a baby being born is a little like watching a wet St. Bernard coming in through the cat door.

You might be a redneck if going to the bathroom involves shoes and a flashlight.

She moved like a poem and smiled like a sphinx.

The measure of a society is its compassion.

Yet what use against the deceit of a state are the memories of a child?

Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.

Flying would give such occasions for intrigues as people cannot meet with who have nothing but legs to carry them.

Freeing Your Child from Anxiety is an excellent book, one of the best of its kind.

For better or worse, I've always tried to march to my own drum and tell it like it is, while preserving some integrity and style. God, I'm fabulous!

Over the years I realized the damage fundamentalism did to my own spiritual and mental health. I've spend time recovering, studying scripture, sessions with a therapist, twelve step recovery.

If you find an occupation you love and spend your entire life working at it, is that enough?

You can achieve what you believe you can. Trust and believe and have faith.