Southern Women

"Despite their cattiness, Southern women often get along beautifully and enjoy each other's company in a way that other women cannot manage.  They are the only American women who, bereft of their men, once stood alone together and faced an invading army.  This makes for a special closeness in the descendants of those not-so-fragile flowers who greeted a battalion from their front porches with a frigid bow." 

~Florence King, Southern Ladies and Gentlemen