M.F.K. Fisher Quotes

Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

I love the power women have. I think women rule the world because they rule men. Manipulating men - that's our job. That's what we're on the planet for.

Sometimes you can only find Heaven by slowly backing away from Hell.

If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

No motive is pure. No one is good or bad-but a hearty mix of both. And sometimes life actually gives to you by taking away.

My heart's in the right place. I know, 'cuz I hid it there.

Bipolar disorder can be a great teacher. It's a challenge, but it can set you up to be able to do almost anything else in your life.

I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.

There is no point at which you can say, "Well, I'm successful now. I might as well take a nap."

How brave a ladybug must be! Each drop of rain is big as she. Can you imagine what you'd do, If raindrops fell as big as you?

I have a bit of a traveling addiction, and, ah, yeah. I went to, ah, Bali this summer.

I get lots of awards for being mentally ill. Apparently, I am better at being mentally ill than almost anything else I've ever done. Seriously - I have a shelf of awards for being bipolar.

You know the bad thing about being a survivor... You keep having to get into difficult situations in order to show off your gift.

Sharing food with another human being is an intimate act that should not be indulged in lightly.

Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures.

The older you get, the easier it is to spot the phonies. And I just think, how unpleasant for them.

A mother is not a person to lean on, but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

I'm very sane about how crazy I am.

From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?

The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

I was street smart, but unfortunately the street was Rodeo Drive.

I love to cook. I make an award-winning turkey chili.

Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.

You may feel that you have eaten too much...But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!

Some people think that doctors and nurses can put scrambled eggs back into the shell.

Life is a cruel, horrible joke and I am the punch line.

A Rolex watch or an expensive car are the things guys often use to show status, wealth, and basic desirability.

I think there is nothing sexier than a handlebar moustache.

Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.

Keep an open heart. We are wired to find love.

Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.

I really love the internet. They say chat-rooms are the trailer park of the internet but I find it amazing.

My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.

Part of my gestalt is that I still feel a little bit like a wallflower. Even in my own life. I talk about myself behind my back.

To consult the statistician after an experiment is finished is often merely to ask him to conduct a post mortem examination. He can perhaps say what the experiment died of.

I went to a doctor and told him I felt normal on acid, that I was a light bulb in a world of moths. That is what the manic state is like.

My feelings are those of a schoolboy getting in sight of the holidays. Or more seriously, my feelings are perhaps those of a matador who has decided not to enter the bull ring.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and ignorant believe to be liberty.

You're only as sick as your secrets. Either it comes out their way or my way. I talk about myself behind my back. And I'm funny about it.

I feel so agitated all the time, like a hamster in search of a wheel.

Your innermost urges will tell you what strategy to employ to accomplish your special purpose while doing the work you enjoy.

No yoga exercise, no meditation in a chapel filled with music will rid you of your blues better than the humble task of making your own bread.

People lie. They use you and they lie, all the while feeding you bullshit about being loyal and never leaving you. No one can make that promise, because life is all about seasons, and seasons change.

To assume a cat's asleep is a grave mistake. He can close his eyes and keep both his ears awake.

Until you know that life is interesting - and find it so - you haven't found your soul.

I don't want to be thought of as a survivor because you have to continue getting involved in difficult situations to show off that particular gift, and I'm not interested in doing that anymore.

It don't matter what you tried to do, you couldn't destroy me! I'm still standing! I'm still strong! And I always will be.

It's challenging, but you have to at least try to eat right and exercise.

All I know is that I've ruled out wearing fairy wings. When I was nine I wanted to get married in fairy wings, and now I realize that's not cool anymore.