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

When I liberate myself, I liberate others. If you don't speak out ain't nobody going to speak out for you. — Fannie Lou Hamer

There are magnificent beings on this earth, son, that are walking around posing as humans. — Fannie Flagg

It's odd to think we might have been Sun, moon and stars unto each other; Only I turned down one little street As you went up another. — Fannie Heaslip Lea

We didnt come all this way for no two seats when all of us is tired, — Fannie Lou Hamer

To support whatever is right, and to bring in justice where weve had so much injustice. — Fannie Lou Hamer

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

If I am truly free, who can tell me how much of my freedom I can have today? — Fannie Lou Hamer

If I fall, I will fall five-feet four-inches forward in the fight for freedom. — Fannie Lou Hamer

We are here to work side-by-side with this "black" man in trying to bring liberation to all our people! — Fannie Lou Hamer

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

Whom the heart first loves does not know or care if they are related by blood. — Fannie Flagg

Buddy, night and day. We even started calling her Cupid. Idgie was — Fannie Flagg

Fannie and Freddie are creations of government. They were given a huge leg up over their competitors. — Nancy Pfotenhauer

I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean ... — Fannie Flagg

[Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah. — Fannie Hurst

Life owes me a living worth living. Yes, Eden regarded life as her debtor, she its relentless paymaster. — Fannie Hurst

I feel sorry for anybody that could let hate wrap them up. Ain't no such thing as I can hate anybody and hope to see God's face. — Fannie Lou Hamer

If you did tell the truth or if you didn't, there were always consequences. Human interaction was difficult at best. — Fannie Flagg

Just because people are fat, it doesn't mean they are well fed. The cheapest foods are the fattening ones, not the most nourishing. — Fannie Lou Hamer

Damn, I'm Miss Mississippi! — Fannie Flagg

I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it. — Fannie Flagg

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to. — Fannie Hurst

So, Doc, will I be able to run the Boston Marathon again this year? — Fannie Flagg

Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles. — Fannie Hurst

Lenore had pushed her into had been a complete disaster. — Fannie Flagg

By the way, is there anything sadder than toys on a grave? — Fannie Flagg

Susie, the Weight Watchers leader, helped herself to a second helping of the sweet potatoes with the marshmallows on top, — Fannie Flagg

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

I am determined to get every Negro in the state of Mississippi registered. — Fannie Lou Hamer

After the boy at the supermarket had called her those names, Evelyn Couch had felt violated. Raped by words. Stripped of Everything. — Fannie Flagg

There Lives More Faith in Honest Doubt,
Believe Me, Than Half the Creeds.
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson — Fannie Flagg

It's always the darkest just before the glorious dawn. — Fannie Flagg

Because any idiot can get married and have children; that's no great accomplishment. — Fannie Flagg

The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss. — Fannie Hurst

It was the story of her life and probably how she had survived this long: with a little talent and a lot of flair. — Fannie Flagg

The maimed bodies aren't the worst. That's the easy way to hate war. The safe way. I - hate it just as much for the maimed souls that stay at home ... — Fannie Hurst

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

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac buy mortgages from banks and other lenders, providing those financial institutions with capital to make new loans. — Charles Duhigg

your camellias are holding up — Fannie Flagg

His idea of how the country was doing had been determined by the size of the butts he picked up off the sidewalk. — Fannie Flagg

Women are fools; they will marry anything that has a heartbeat just to have a man. — Fannie Flagg

Oh it don't make no kind of sense. Big ol' ox like Grady won't sit next to a colored child. But he eats eggs- shoot right outta chicken's ass! — Fannie Flagg

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war. — Fannie Hurst

Cooking may be as much a means of self-expression as any of the arts. — Fannie Farmer

Fixing Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac in isolation, without looking at the big picture, would be short-sighted. — Bethany McLean

These two entities - Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac - are not facing any kind of financial crisis, — Barney Frank

All dread those things they don't understand ... — Fannie Ellsworth Newberry

To Toot One's Own Horn Is Unattractive. — Fannie Flagg

[On her Freedom Farm Cooperative:] If you give a hungry man food, he will eat it. [But] if you give him land, he will grow his own food. — Fannie Lou Hamer

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, although they're not officially debt of the federal government, they are off-balance-sheet debt. — John Thune

Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation. — Fannie Hurst

raging across Europe. Every night, families sat glued to the radio, listening to the news of Poland. Most still had relatives — Fannie Flagg

We do not have a crisis at Freddie Mac, and particularly Fannie Mae, under the outstanding leadership of Frank Raines. — Maxine Waters

They say the truth can set you free, but sometimes it can really depress the hell out of you. — Fannie Flagg

But in August 1945, Americans — Fannie Flagg

I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not. — Fannie Hurst

Never to forget where we came from and always praise the bridges that carried us over. — Fannie Lou Hamer

You don't have to like everybody, but you have to love everybody. — Fannie Lou Hamer

And her dumplings were so light they would float in the air and you'd have to catch 'em to eat 'em. — Fannie Flagg

Sex is a discovery. — Fannie Hurst

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing. — Fannie Hurst

You know, it's funny what you'll miss when you're away from home. Now me, I miss the smell of coffee ... and bacon frying in the morning. — Fannie Flagg

By the way, Boots died and Opal says she hopes you're satisfied. — Fannie Flagg

Fannie Mae had aroused his anger, then reduced his anger to verbal breast-beating, and finally to silent hurt. Still, the love remained. Why? — Frank Herbert

My mom had Julia Child and 'The Fannie Farmer Cookbook' on top of the refrigerator, and she had a small repertoire of French dishes. — Anthony Bourdain

Hazel always used to say There's not enough darkness in the entire universe to snuff out the light of just one little candle. — Fannie Flagg

I was sitting on the roof, and she didn't see me. I sit on the roof a lot. People never think to look up. — Fannie Flagg

A careless word may wound the heart, And quickly it may die; Yet in the seas of memory Forever it will lie. — Fannie Isabel Sherrick

Remember, Sookie, nothing says more about a family than good silver and real pearls. The rest is just fluff. — Fannie Flagg

Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone. — Fannie Flagg

Every woman wants to get married and have children. — Fannie Flagg

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

No matter what you look like, there's somebody who's gonna think you're the handsomest man in the world. — Fannie Flagg

Come, come, come! Fast as you can! I'm fuckin' you hard, I'm the gingerbread man!" he cried in his high, jovial tone. — Fannie Tucker

All right, then, I'd die for you. How about that? Don't you think somebody could die for love? — Fannie Flagg

I love your stories. Tell me a story, Idgie. Go on, you old bee charmer. Tell me a good tall tale. Tell me the one about the lake. ~Ruth Jamison — Fannie Flagg

After Elner Shimfissle accidentally poked that wasps' nest up in her fig tree, the last thing she remembered was thinking "Uh-oh. — Fannie Flagg

A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far. — Fannie Hurst

Face it girls. I'm older and I have more insurance. — Fannie Flagg

Mildred had had a few men friends after that, but she never really loved any of them. None could ever compete with the one that got away. — Fannie Flagg

as they walked home, and she would — Fannie Flagg

When I liberate others, I liberate myself. — Fannie Lou Hamer

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

You know, a heart can be broken, but it still keeps a-beating just the same. — Fannie Flagg

If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves. — Fannie Lou Hamer

months was ten years. — Fannie Flagg

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. — Jamie Dimon

But you soon find out they don't want to meet you, they want you to meet them. — Fannie Flagg

For years, critics of Fannie Mae have warned that it does not give them enough information to judge its risks. — Alex Berenson

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

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

Progress in civilization has been accompanied by progress in cookery. — Fannie Farmer

Don't give up before the miracle happens. — Fannie Flagg

Righteousness exalts a nation. Hate just makes people miserable. — Fannie Lou Hamer

He had been told that in America, if you worked hard, anything was possible. — Fannie Flagg

Churches were shut down and Stanislaw's father and three uncles had been sent to prison camps for speaking out. — Fannie Flagg

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

Are you a politician or does lying just run in your family? — Fannie Flagg

Black people know what white people mean when they say "law and order". — Fannie Lou Hamer