All the Single Ladies Quotes

“Words matter . . . They really do.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, All the Single Ladies

“David Harper was Hollywood handsome but he had a Conan the Barbarian temper to go with his looks.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, All the Single Ladies

“Miss Trudie said, “Well, like my momma used to say, butter my butt and call me a biscuit. This takes the cake.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, All the Single Ladies

“Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back to, and reasons to stay.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, All the Single Ladies

“At some point you can no longer insist that your children do this or that. I had learned this lesson the hard way. You have to let them fall down and then you can help them get back up. But you have to let them become adults.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, All the Single Ladies

“Suzanne said. “And then she goes in the kitchen and makes herself a martini in an iced-tea glass and she thinks I don’t know. She eats the olives on the side. By the handful.” “Whenever you see her eating olives,” Carrie said, “you can be about one hundred percent positive that there’s gin in her glass.” “What happens when the gin runs low?” I asked. “And the vermouth and olives?” “Well, I go to the liquor store, of course!” Suzanne said. “We just don’t discuss it.” “No! Of course not!” I said. Weren’t they merely doing their part to live up to our hard-earned reputation as eccentric southerners? And of course, the more wine we consumed, the more we revealed about ourselves. Going through Kathryn’s clothes, papers, and books had once again been profoundly unnerving. We were all just wrung out. “You know what was really strange?” Carrie said. “What?” Suzanne said. “Seeing what she read,” Carrie said. “I’d bet you a tooth that I’ve read all the same fiction authors that she did. Ann Patchett, Anne Tyler, Anne Rivers Siddons, Anna Quindlen—all the Anns. But we never talked about books. Not even once.” “Well, she played her cards close,” Suzanne said. “But she read lots of people. She always had a book with her.” “Didn’t”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, All the Single Ladies

“Give the ones you love wings to fly, roots to come back to, and reasons to stay.’ I just always loved”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, All the Single Ladies

“If you want to find out which of your relatives are crazy, have a funeral.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, All the Single Ladies

“This was the moment when I realized why women need men for reasons beyond procreation, carrying heavy things, killing large creepy bugs, taking out the garbage, and making our coats shiny. We need another perspective and men really do have a remarkable capacity to look at things differently. Men are just different. Vive la différence. Really.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, All the Single Ladies

“Arthur Aron, PhD, for his marvelous research into how and why people fall in love and how to expedite the process using his thirty-six questions, which went viral after they were mentioned in an essay in the New York Times. I even have the app. What a world.”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, All the Single Ladies

“been”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, All the Single Ladies

“is my”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, All the Single Ladies

“Trudie’s”
― Dorothea Benton Frank, All the Single Ladies