…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...

Like I say, it just creeps up on you. One day you’re young and the next day your bosoms and your chin drops and you’re wearing a rubber girdle. But you don’t know you’re old.

The food in the South is as important as food anywhere because it defines a person’s culture.

I was, am , severely dyslexic and couldn’t spell, still can’t spell. So I was discouraged from writing and embarrassed.

It’s funny, most people can be around someone and they gradually begin to love them and never know exactly when it happened; but Ruth knew the very second it happened to her. When Idgie had...

From the time I was 6 years old I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.

…nobody was ever really ready to turn off their mother’s machine, no matter what they thought; to turn off the light of their childhood and walk away, just as if they were turning out a...

I wrote it in longhand as an 11-year-old girl and so all my misspelled words, they’ll think I did it on purpose.

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

Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.

I brought a picture with me that I had at home, of a girl in a swing with a castle and pretty blue bubbles in the background, to hang in my room, but that nurse...

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...

I wonder how many people don’t get the one they want, but end up with the one they’re supposed to be with.

And her dumplings were so light they would float in the air and you’d have to catch ’em to eat ’em.

All those calm, adult discussions. When all she really wanted to do was scream for her momma, her sweet momma, the one person in the world who loved her better than anyone ever would or...

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,...

Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone.

Hazel: Listen babe you have to search for your luck it’s nice if it just falls in your lap but I look for my lucky pennies. … Maggie: What do you do with all your...

No, tesoro, credo ancora in Dio. E’ solo la parte su Adamo e Eva che mi fa sorgere un interrogativo.

By the way, Boots died and Opal says she hopes you’re satisfied.

Hazel always used to say There’s not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle.

Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead.

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.

And so, as quietly as he had lived, he slipped out of town, leaving only a note behind:Well, that’s that. I’m off, and if you don’t believe I’m leaving, just count the days I’m gone....