If you do everything in your power to avoid writing and still can't, then you must be a writer.

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?

The world of wonder is wonderful wilderness.

Let them hear your voice so rarely that a simply-uttered word creates a hush of expectancy in the room.

When I came to faith, I was on pro-choice boards, and I dropped off of those because you couldn't read the Bible and be pro-choice.

I trust work, directors - I don't live in fear. All good experiences have come from trusting the universe. There is no other way to live or love. Otherwise, you create your own prison.

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

Women don't run around saying, "Oh, I took a Bodysex workshop, and I had so much fun, and Betty Dodson taught us how to blah blah." They come, they go, and I rarely hear from them again.

I can be attracted to a woman sexually, but it doesn't mean I want to be in love with a woman.

The acorn of honest inquiry has often sprouted and matured into a great oak of understanding.

There isn’t an education system on the planet that teaches dance everyday to children the way we teach them mathematics. Why?

A martini. Shaken, not stirred.