Quotes from Fannie Flagg

Having children is no guarantee that you'll get visitors Ã¢â'¬Â¦ No, it isn't.

How do you know if you're making the right decision? Easy. Just like two and two always add up to four, kindness and forgiveness is always right, hate and revenge is always wrong.

Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.

To Toot One's Own Horn Is Unattractive.

she had learned that being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

Oh no, honey. Lots of women go through it early. Why, there was this woman over in Georgia who was only thirty-six-years-old and one day she got in her car and drove right up the stairs to the county courthouse, rolled down her window, and tossed her mother's head that she had just chopped off in her kitchen at a State policeman and hollered, Here! This is what you wanted, and drove right back down the courthouse stairs. Now that's what an early menopause will do for you if you're not careful.

The little girl knew if she bit any member of her family, they would get rabies too, and she died without ever having been petted. I cried so hard Mrs. Underwood had to take me to the school nurse.

Every time they have somebody born in the movies, it is a little boy. They never have little girls being born. What makes boys so great and woooonnnderfullll? I can do anything a boy can do

Damn, I'm Miss Mississippi!

She felt her heart open and fill with the pure wonder of being alive and making it through.

I just wonder how many people never get the one they want, and wind up with the one they're supposed to be with.

In 1945, when the male soldiers started coming back home from Europe, she and all the other women pilots that had served as WASPs during the war were unceremoniously told to go home and never received a dime or even thanks from the government.

Whom the heart first loves does not know or care if they are related by blood.

His idea of how the country was doing had been determined by the size of the butts he picked up off the sidewalk.

I was sitting on the roof, and she didn't see me. I sit on the roof a lot. People never think to look up.

I'm too young to be old and too old to be young. I

Mrs. Threadgoode pulled something out of the Cracker Jack box and all of a sudden her eyes lit up. "Oh Evelyn, look! Here's my prize. It's a little miniature chicken… just what I like!" and she held it out for her friend to see.

You know, life can be hard sometimes. And I sort of think animals are little gifts the good Lord sends to help us get through it. Lady sure did that for me.

Buddy, night and day. We even started calling her Cupid. Idgie was

and now i know i'm not myself. how can i ever be myself again? i was never myself in the first place!

I love your stories. Tell me a story, Idgie. Go on, you old bee charmer. Tell me a good tall tale. Tell me the one about the lake. ~Ruth Jamison

Don't give up before the miracle happens.

I knew I wasn't the picture of health, but I didn't think I was headed for the last roundup.

You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?