In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.

Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is, if something wonderful happens, to throw water in my own face.

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

That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.

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

The line between the public life and the private life has been erased, due to the rapid decline of manners and courtesy. There is a certain crudeness and crassness that has suddenly become accepted behavior, even desirable.

In her opinion, Alexander Graham Bell and Clarence Birdseye are the two greatest Americans that ever lived excluding Robert E. Lee. She believes we never lost the War Between the States, that General Lee thought General Grant was the butler and just naturally handed him his sword.