“If I grew up in the simple-minded belief that women were as strong and intelligent as men, it was because I came from a society that had once believed it.” StrengthIndependenceScotch Irish Book:Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South Source: Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South
“Besides its content and methods, the cuisine devised by squaws and hillbilly women, as well as slave women, had another thing in common, which was the belief that you made do with whatever you could lay hands on--pigs' entrails, turnip tops, cowpeas, terrapins, catfish--anything that didn't bite you first.” Food Book:Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South Source: Womenfolks: Growing Up Down South
“We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies.” FamilyKnowledgeHistoryAncestry Author:Shirley Abbott