"Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance."
— Fannie Flagg (Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe)

"Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you are two steps ahead."
— Fannie Flagg (Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel)

"I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones."
— Fannie Flagg (Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man: A Novel)

"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."
— Fannie Flagg (Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man: A Novel)

"Dena had always been a loner. She did not feel connected to anything. Or anybody. She felt as if everybody else had come into the world with a set of instructions about how to live and someone had forgotten to give them to her. She had no clue what she was supposed to feel, so she had spent her life faking at being a human being, with no idea how other people felt. What was it like to really love someone? To really fit in or belong somewhere? She was quick, and a good mimic, so she learned at an early age to give the impression of a normal, happy girl, but inside she had always been lonely."
— Fannie Flagg

"Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family?"
— Fannie Flagg (Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel)

"Grandma Harper has two green bottles shaped like women with black hair painted on their heads and a yellow glass colored captain's hat that she keeps her face powder in that I want too, and a picture of a naked girl in a swing, swinging way up in the air over castles in a blue sky.
I don't know why I want those things, I just do."
— Fannie Flagg (Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man: A Novel)

"...The band did a salute to Stephen Foster and played 'Beautiful Dreamer' and we formed a bed. Then we played 'My Old Kentucky Home' while the majorettes slowly pranced like horses. We finished with 'I Dream of Jeanie with the Light Brown Hair', we formed a comb. Miss Philpot is running out of ideas if you ask me."
— Fannie Flagg (Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man: A Novel)

"You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?"
— Fannie Flagg (Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel)

"Damn, I'm Miss Mississippi!"
— Fannie Flagg (Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man: A Novel)

"People cain't help being what they are any more than a skunk can help being a skunk. Don't you think if they had their choice they would rather be something else? Sure they would. People are just weak."
— Fannie Flagg (Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel)

"There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt,
Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds.
- Alred, Lord Tennyson"
— Fannie Flagg (Can't Wait to Get to Heaven: A Novel)

"So, Doc, will I be able to run the Boston Marathon again this year?"
— Fannie Flagg

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

"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."
— Fannie Flagg (Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!: A Novel)

"People cain't help being what they are any more than a skunk can help being a skunk. Don't you think if they had their choice they would rather be something else?"
— Fannie Flagg

"People cain't help being what they are any more than a skunk can help being a skunk. Don't you think if they had their choice they would rather be something else?"
— Fannie Flagg (Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe: A Novel)