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

Fannie Flagg Quotes

They say envy is a coal that comes hot and hissing straight from hell.

— Fannie Flagg

Brave girls don’t cry.

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Let’s put it this way, Mrs. Threadgoode said kindly. She’s of this world, but not in it.

— Fannie Flagg

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 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

When you’re a child you think time will never go by, but when you hit about twenty, time passes like you’re on the fast train to Memphis.

— Fannie Flagg

Nothing had come easy to him. School, sports, or girls... it seemed to Oswald that everyone else had come into this world with a set of instructions but him. From the beginning he had always felt like a pair of white socks and brown shoes in a roomful of tuxedos. He had never really gotten a break in life, and now it was all over.

— Fannie Flagg

At the reception, she had introduced a man to his own wife. Twice.

— Fannie Flagg

You save up all your energy for the big push – when you need it. And when you’re up there, concentrate. Remain calm and steady as she goes. Don’t look right, don’t look left, don’t let yourself get rattled, just stay the course, nice and easy all the way.

— Fannie Flagg

Jerry Falwell would be responsible for the raising of all illegitimate children who had no homes;.

— Fannie Flagg

And you can’t be happy and in a rage at the same time.

— Fannie Flagg

She felt her heart open and fill with the pure wonder of being alive and making it through.

— Fannie Flagg

No, non era la morte a spaventarla. Era questa sua vita di ogni giorno, che cominciava a ricordarle troppo da vicino la grigia sala d’aspetto del reparto di terapia intensiva.

— Fannie Flagg

Ci sono persone magnifiche su questa terra, che se ne vanno in giro travestite da normali esseri umani.

— Fannie Flagg

The Joy of a Loving God.

— Fannie Flagg

All he was doing was just sitting around killing time, looking at the birds and waiting to die.

— Fannie Flagg

If good wishes had been ten-dollar bills, he would have left a rich man.

— Fannie Flagg

Just like two and two always add up to four, kindness and forgiveness is always right, hate and revenge is always wrong.

— Fannie Flagg

Cook to a thick paste over slow flame. Cool. Cream sugars and vanilla with butter and shortening. Beat until light and fluffy. Blend in salt. Mix in cooled paste. Beat until fluffy. Blend. Should look like whipped cream.

— Fannie Flagg

Towanda the Magnanimous, Righter of Wrongs and Queen without Compare.

— Fannie Flagg
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