I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.

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

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.

Being a successful person is not necessarily defined by what you have achieved, but by what you have overcome.

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

Don't give up before the miracle happens.

You're just a bee charmer, Idgie Threadgoode. That's what you are, a bee charmer.

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 times and bad.

You know, a heart can be broken, but it keeps on beating, just the same.

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

You never know what's in a person's heart until they're tested, do you?

We didn’t want to admit it then, but we were friends. Best friends.

You can design a mortgage system that is different without a Fannie and Freddie, but there are principles you have to have, to have a good system.

Food is just the greatest joy on the planet.

Life isn't complicated. It's very simple, really. It's us who make it complicated.

Vampires should never say Uh-Oh!!

There is a vast territory between what we're trying to leave behind, and where we want to go - and we don't have any maps for that territory.

The anti-gun-violence movement was essentially asleep from 1994 to 2012, and during that time, the gun lobby built up enormous political power.

The death of a library, any library, suggests that the community has lost its soul.

Mistakes and prejudices are as interesting as anything else. They reveal a lot about the mind set and culture of the time under consideration.

Real fear is like intense pain. It's there to warn you something's truly wrong.