Quotes by : M.F.K. Fisher

I let myself exist mainly through my children... [but] I could not even guess at the lives my children....

Like most humans, I am hungry...our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and....

There are very few men and women, I suspect, who cooked and marketed their way through the past war without....

Painting, it is true, was undergoing a series of -isms reminiscent of the whims of a pregnant woman.

Perhaps they should feel this safe sand blow away so that their heads are uncovered for a time, so that....

...it was one of the best meals we ever ate.Perhaps that is because it was the first conscious one, for....

There is communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.

Inwardly, though, she was blown empty by a giant breath, and while they stood waiting for Mr. Henshaw....

...having bowed to the inevitability of the dictum that we must eat to live, we should ignore it and....

I sat in the gradually chilling room, thinking of my whole past the way a drowning man is supposed to,....