The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion Quotes

“being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“I’m telling you, Dena, 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.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“They say the truth can set you free, but sometimes it can really depress the hell out of you.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“You may not be the person your mother wants you to be, but you are you. Our job here is to try and separate the wheat from the chaff and figure out who you are and not who your mother thinks you are.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“Your mother formed an incorrect opinion of you and, naturally, you agreed with her. Children always think their parents are right. But in this case, your mother was entirely wrong. Think about it. Your mother is an overpowering individual,”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“she had learned that being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“Whom the heart first loves does not know or care if they are related by blood.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“Men are necessary up to a point, but women are the natural leaders in society and in the home.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“and now i know i'm not myself. how can i ever be myself again? i was never myself in the first place!”
― fannie flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“As a tribute, they had this inscribed in bronze and placed on her tombstone: She has climbed to the peaks above storm and cloud She has found the light of son and of God, I cannot say, I will not say That she is dead. She is merely flown away. —James Whitcomb Riley”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“I just think humiliation really causes more harm than maybe being physically beaten.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“Harris had done exactly what he had been told to do by the sexy dame from Oklahoma. After he had removed all of his clothes, he smirked at her. "Will I do?" Willy, still fully dressed in her steel-tipped cowboy boots, smiled and said, "Oh, yes. Come here, big boy." As soon as he got close enough, she hauled off and kicked him as hard as she could, and Harris fell to the floor, clutching his pride and joy and screaming in pain. Willy calmly strolled over and picked up his shoes and all of his clothes and threw them out the twenty-second-floor window. She left him lying on the floor, naked and writhing in agony. Willy never told a soul what she had done, but she figured it was the least she could do for Fritzi.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“I don’t know. I just feel all wicky-wacky. I’m just thrown for a loop and back. I can’t even think about what to do.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“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.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“and Lenore had served each child several cups of the Simmons eggnog, which was 75 percent rum and 25 percent nog. When they came to pick the children up, all four were stumbling around her living room in a drunken stupor.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“He had been told that in America, if you worked hard, anything was possible.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“The war was over, but it had taken its toll. More than 400,000 Americans had been killed and 1.7 million had been hurt in some way. And most people didn’t know about the 39 WASPs who had been killed or that 16 Army nurses had died by enemy fire, and 67 had been taken prisoner, including Nurse Dottie Frakes, who was held in a Japanese concentration camp for more than three years.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“she had learned that being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome. And”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“Remember, Sookie, nothing says more about a family than good silver and real pearls. The rest is just fluff.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“Hello... is this Mrs. Fritzi Bevins?'
'Yes, it is.'
'From Pulaski, Wisconsin?'
'Yes.'
'Uh... you don't know me, but I recently received some papers. From Texas. And, well... I think I might be your daughter?'
There was a long silence on the other end, and then after a moment, the woman in a softer voice said, 'Hiya, pal. I've been waiting for this call for a long time.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“When we arrived in Wilmington, looking forward to a steak with all the trimmings, one snooty puffball says to us, "We don't accept women in trousers," to which Willy says, "Would you accept a boot in your behind?”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“Upset? I'm just thinking about staging my own death is all.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“Hi, sweetie. What did you do today?"
Sookie had been waiting for years to say this: "Nothing. Absolutely nothing.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“How can you expect me to have a weak opinion? Would you go into a restaurant and order a weak cup of coffee?"
"Yes, as a matter of fact, I would.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“But that was Lenore: the bride at every wedding, the corpse at every funeral.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“This meant that the families of the girls who had been killed would be receiving no death benefits, and at the end of the war, the WASPs, unlike all other discharged veterans, would be left with no GI Bill, no medical, no nothing.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“At the reception, she had introduced a man to his own wife. Twice.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“He sat there for a moment and then said, “Well … I”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“hard? I think I have been a wonderful mother. I”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion

“Your mother formed an incorrect opinion of you and, naturally, you agreed with her. Children always think their parents are right. But in this case, your mother was entirely wrong.”
― Fannie Flagg, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion