Reese Witherspoon [1]'s Southern charm is simply enchanting on the cover of Harper's Bazaar's February issue [2]! In addition to talking about her new lifestyle brand, Draper James [3], the actress opens up about her career shift from rom-com leading lady to entrepreneur extraordinaire and how she's using her work to set a positive example for her three children [4], Ava, 16, Deacon, 12, and Tennessee, 3. Read on for her best quotes, then check out her best Instagram snaps [5] that will make you fall in love with her all over again.
![On why she stopped doing romantic comedies: "I certainly can't star in all these movies. I want to get a female perspective on film that would make my daughter [Ava] understand what it means to be a woman in a different way."
On how she doesn't worry about the future anymore: "I was 25 when Legally Blonde came out, 26 for Sweet Home Alabama, and 29 for Walk the Line. And I was scared, really scared. Now I feel like a different person. It's a great thing getting older. You are who you are; you say what you mean."](https://media1.popsugar-assets.com/files/ps-image-unavailable.png "On why she stopped doing romantic comedies: \"I certainly can't star in all these movies. I want to get a female perspective on film that would make my daughter [Ava] understand what it means to be a woman in a different way.\"
On how she doesn't worry about the future anymore: \"I was 25 when Legally Blonde came out, 26 for Sweet Home Alabama, and 29 for Walk the Line. And I was scared, really scared. Now I feel like a different person. It's a great thing getting older. You are who you are; you say what you mean.\"")
On why she stopped doing romantic comedies: "I certainly can't star in all these movies. I want to get a female perspective on film that would make my daughter [Ava] understand what it means to be a woman in a different way."
On how she doesn't worry about the future anymore: "I was 25 when Legally Blonde came out, 26 for Sweet Home Alabama, and 29 for Walk the Line. And I was scared, really scared. Now I feel like a different person. It's a great thing getting older. You are who you are; you say what you mean."
On what inspired her to start a home and clothing line: "I saw an empty space. All these women in the South, they read fashion magazines, but nobody was telling the stories about their upbringing — their mothers, their grandmothers — who love getting dressed up. It's a feminine culture."
On how her brand is home: "It's about where I'm from, an opportunity for me to move back to the South, get my roots here."