Fannie Flagg
Fannie Flagg
Fannie Flaggis an American actress, comedian and author. She is best known as a semi-regular panelist on the 1973–82 versions of the game show Match Game and for the 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, which was adapted into the 1991 movie Fried Green Tomatoes. Flagg was nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay adaptation...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth21 September 1944
CityBirmingham, AL
CountryUnited States of America
The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.
The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person's culture.
Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.
In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.
Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.
If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.
It's always the darkest just before the glorious dawn.
That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.
Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.
Being an only child and losing both my parents at an early age, I have found that the friends I have made over the years are the people who help me get through life, good times and bad.
Daddy gave me real useful information to protect me in the real world. If anyone hits me, I'm not to hit them back. I wait until their back is turned, then hit them in the head with a brick.
You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?
You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.
You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.