Quotes by : M.F.K. Fisher

I was horribly self-conscious; I wanted everybody to look at me and think me the most fascinating creature....

Dining partners, regardless of gender, social standing, or the years they've lived, should be chosen....

First we eat, then we do everything else.

When you think you can stand no more of the wolf's snuffing under the door and keening softly on cold....

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

It is easy to think of potatoes, and fortunately for men who have not much money it is easy to think....

I cannot count the good people I know who, to my mind, would be even better if they bent their spirits....

She resolved, at forty-some, that since she herself must die, she would do it as gracefully as possible,....

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

our dispassionate acceptance of attrition...[can] be matched by a full use of everything that has ever....