M.F.K. Fisher Quotes

All nations want peace, but they want a peace that suits them.

Whether you're married or not, relationships - and the satisfaction tied to them - are extremely important for increasing men's and women's quality of life.

I like the community of acting better than the prison of writing. I like sets.

I'm in denial in its lesser state. It will take me a second. People around me will notice my mania first. And, my depression.

That's why writers write—to say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, still feelings loudly heard.

I don't know about understood. I think that unless you are forced to understand - unless it is an issue of yours - you wouldn't bother to.

I've often said to myself, "Thank God I can write, 'cause this is hilarious." I actually wanted to go into all that more in the book, but my editor thought it was too crazy.

We are not to consider ourselves, while here, as at church or school, to listen to the harangues of speculative piety; we are here to talk of the political interests committed to our charge.

When life kicks me, I kick it back.

gastronomy is and always has been connected with its sister art of love.

love is like Someone is camping in your head

You've got to remember that men are men and women are women. And although a lot of similarities, there are some real differences.

I always just looked really like someone who will someday be on prescription medication.

You can only give your heart away once, after that, everything else will chase your first love

The fact of progress is written plain and large on the page of history; but progress is not a law of nature.

Purity of race does not exist. Europe is a continent of energetic mongrels.

Inductive inference is the only process known to us by which essentially new knowledge comes into the world.

A pleasant aperitif, as well as a good chaser for a short quick whiskey, as well again for a fine supper drink, is beer.

Fairly large print is a real antidote to stiff reading.

After all, it is a common weakness of young authors to put too much into their papers.

A mom isn't an individual to lean on, but a person to generate leaning needless.

Something that I really enjoy doing is creating and being a part of very different characters and very different projects.

I don't think 50-50 relationships exist. Men have an incredibly variety of options. It's much harder for a woman to do both things. I think traditional relationships work best.

help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.

perhaps all this modern ferment of what's known as 'social conscience' or 'civic responsibility' isn't a result of the sense of duty, but of the old, old craving for beauty.

I think that the truth is a really stern taskmistress.

Our society's values are being corrupted by advertising's insistence on the equation: youth equals popularity, popularity equals success, success equals happiness.

High heels can literally raise your status because you're taller when you wear them.

Sometimes I feel like I've got my nose pressed up against the window of a bakery, only I'm the bread.

I am a spy in the house of me. I report back from the front lines of the battle that is me. I am somewhat nonplused by the event that is my life.

I have the ability, occasionally, of being able to step out and see who you think I could end up being. And I like to play with that.

Broken people give broken love. And we are all a little broken. You just have to forgive and sew up the wounds love delivers, and move on.

Maybe lifting someone else’s weight makes yours a little more bearable

I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night.

The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the moral sense.

The million, million, million ... to one chance happens once in a million, million, million ... times no matter how surprised we may be that it results in us.

Discipline is doing what you don't wanna do so you can do what you really want to do.

As women in industrial societies join the paid workforce, they gain the economic means to depart unhappy marriages more easily.

There exists no culture in which adultery is unknown, no cultural device or code that extinguishes philandering.

Globalization requires taking a broad contextual and long-term view.

Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice.

Most of us make up our minds in the first three minutes of meeting someone whether there's a potential for a relationship.

Comedy has always been important in my family. If you got in a good joke at the dinner table, it meant more than almost anything else.

You can't underestimate how traumatic divorce is for the children.

I tell my girlfriends - 'Imagine if all the time you put into waxing and primping, you took all of that energy and put it into something useful.'

There is an aura of victory that surrounds a person of goodwill.

Leadership is the special quality which enables people to stand up and pull the rest of us over the horizon.

Following Christ is a daily thing, not just a one-time thing

Probably no strychnine has sent as many husbands into their graves as mealtime scolding has, and nothing has driven more men into the arms of other women as the sound of a shrill whine at table.

There's a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.