“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.”

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

“I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.”

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

“Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!”

“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.”

“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.”