“It took me several years of such periods of being alone to learn how to care for myself, at least at table. I came to believe that since nobody else dared feed me as I wished to be fed, I… — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“It's really fine that you found a good archivist to do the basically difficult and at times harrowing work of cleaning out old papers.… — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“Like most humans, I am hungry...our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we… — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“Perhaps they should feel this safe sand blow away so that their heads are uncovered for a time, so that they will have to… — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“(We loved Mother too, completely, but we were finding out, as Father was too, that it is good for parents and for children to… — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“Probably one of the most private things in the world is an egg before it is broken.” — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“Perhaps this war will make it simpler for us to go back to some of the old ways we knew before we came over… — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“There are very few men and women, I suspect, who cooked and marketed their way through the past war without losing forever some of… — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“...after rare beef and wine, when the lobes turn red, was the time to ask favours or tell bad news.” — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“...it was one of the best meals we ever ate. Perhaps that is because it was the first conscious one, for me at least;… — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“...but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands,… — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“It took me several years of such periods of being alone to learn how to care for myself, at least at table. I came… — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share Image
“We sink too easily into stupid and overfed sensuality, our bodies thickening even more quickly than our minds.” — M.F.K. Fisher Copy Share Image
