Quotes from Fannie Flagg

When she finally was able to order a martini, the first sip nearly knocked her head off. It was so strong. And how surprised she was that scotch tasted more like iodine than butterscotch candy. Two of the great disappointments in her life.

but oh, it would just break your heart to see some of them waiting for their visitors. They get their hair all done up on Saturday, and on Sunday morning they get themselves all dressed and ready, and after all that, nobody comes to see them. I feel so bad, but what can you do? Having children is no guarantee that you'll get visitors . . . No, it isn't.

178 Secondo me la gente non è più felice come una volta. Non si vedono più facce contente, o almeno io non ne vedo. Quando Frances ci ha portato a fare spese, ho detto alla signora Otis: Guarda, hanno tutti quanti la faccia scura, anche i giovani.

newly formed group of women fliers known as the WASPs. Female pilots were desperately needed to ferry planes and supplies around the United States and free up the men for combat duty.

That's it, she'd buy some off a dead man and she could put them in a box and take them to important meetings and bang them on the table to get her way. Maybe she'd buy four…

You cain't dwell on sadness, oh, it'll make you sick faster than anything in this world.

Can any of you by worrying add a single hour to your span of life?' Luke 12:25.

he surprised her by signing, "You are the most beautiful girl in the world." Ander didn't know it, but he had signed, "You are the most beautiful squirrel in the world.

And when you wonder where I am, just look up at the sun and that's where I'll be.

The Joy of a Loving God.

He assured them, with a great and mighty authority, that his God was not a vengeful God, but one of goodness…love…forgiveness…and joy.

If good wishes had been ten-dollar bills, he would have left a rich man.

After Elner Shimfissle accidentally poked that wasps' nest up in her fig tree, the last thing she remembered was thinking "Uh-oh.

C'è qualcos'altro che devi sempre ricordare. Ci sono persone magnifiche su questa terra, che se ne vanno in giro travestite da normali esseri umani.

There before her was a plate of perfectly fried green tomatoes and fresh cream-white corn, six slices of bacon, with a bowl of baby lima beans on the side and four huge light and fluffy buttermilk biscuits.

And as far as Norma was concerned, that was the main problem with life. You never knew what was going to happen from minute to minute, and more than anything in this world, Norma hated a surprise.

Poor little old human beings—they're jerked into this world without having any idea where they came from or what it is they are supposed to do, or how long they have to do it in. Or where they are gonna wind up after that. But bless their hearts, most of them wake up every morning and keep on trying to make some sense out of it. Why, you can't help but love them, can you? I just wonder why more of them aren't as crazy as betsy bugs." —Aunt Elner, 1978

But while she had been busy raising her children, the world had left her behind.

When you live long enough to see your children begin to look at you with different eyes, and you can look at them not as your children, but as people, it's worth getting older with all the creaks and wrinkles.

you just don't know how bad it feels to have people who don't even know you hate you, and for something you had nothing to do with.

And as friends get closer, they start to tell each other everything.

But you soon find out they don't want to meet you, they want you to meet them.

History was being rewritten by the minute. All of his childhood heroes were now being viewed as villains, their lives judged in hindsight by the current fad of political correctness.

taste doesn't cost a dime, but if you don't have it, you can't buy it for a million dollars