Growing up in Texas, you were either pretty or smart. Smart didn't get you very far, because there weren't too many job opportunities for women. I wondered why you couldn't be both.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
To be beautiful in Texas, you had to be blonde and blue-eyed and have a name like Ann.
A Texas girl who grew up in terrible poverty, I ended up leading a pretty glamorous life.
I still feel like I'm the girl from Texas.
Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.
People think I'm girlish and flippant, but I was an honours student. I was voted Girl Most Likely To Succeed at North Mesquite High in Texas. My best subject was science. I won a scholarship.
I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.
I always had that adolescent notion that I had to get out of Texas. But I'm really glad I grew up there. It's where I learned to look people in the eye, to be straightforward and polite.
I'm a Texas girl.
I was smart and married somebody who could do for me what I couldn't do for myself.
It was a very cool thing to be a smart girl, as opposed to some other, different kind. And I think that made a great deal of difference to me growing up and in my life afterward.