The Southern Woman Quotes

“It never registered to them that I had time to read all of Balzac, Dickens, and Stendhal while Papa was dying, not to mention everything in the city library after Mother's operation. It would have been exactly the same to them if I had read through all twenty-six volumes of Elsie Dinsmore. (The White Azalea)”
― Elizabeth Spencer, The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction

“To each other, they talked at a gallop. Literature turned them on; their ideas flowed, ran back and forth like a current. (The Cousins)”
― Elizabeth Spencer, The Southern Woman: New and Selected Fiction