Sabrina

“Evelyn wondered ; why always sexual names? And why, when men wanted to degrade other men, did they call them pussies? As if that was the worst thing in the world. What have we done to be thought of that way ? To be called cunt? People didn’t call blacks names anymore, at least not to their faces. Italians weren’t wops or dagos, and there were no more kikes, Japs, chinks, or spics in polite conversation. Everybody had a group to protest and stick up for them. But women were still being called names by men. Why? Where was our group? It’s not fair. She was getting more upset by the minute. Evelyn thought, I wish Idgie had been with me. She would not have let that boy call her names. I’ll bet she would have knocked him down.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“When we put up with any situation we don’t have to put up with, it’s not because we’re dumb. We put up with it, because we want the lesson only that situation can teach, and we want it more than freedom myself.”
― Richard Bach, Running from Safety: An Adventure of the Spirit

“I believe poor people are good people, except the ones that are mean … and they’d be mean even if they were rich.”
― Fannie Flagg, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe

“If you really want to remove a cloud from your life, you do not make a big production of it, you just relax and remove it from your thinking. That's all there is to it.”
― Richard Bach, Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah