Fannie Flagg — American Author born on September 21, 1941,

Patricia Neal, known professionally as Fannie Flagg, is an American actress, comedian and author. She is best known as a semi-regular panelist on the 1973–82 versions of the game show Match Game and for the 1987 novel Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, which was adapted into the 1991 movie Fried Green Tomatoes. Flagg was nominated for an Academy Award for the screenplay adaptation... (wikipedia)

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.
I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.
Remember if people talk behind your back, it only means you're two steps ahead!
In order to be Miss Anybody you had to have excellent grades, and I had terrible grades because of my dyslexia.
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.