Evelyn Couch Quotes

#1. After the boy at the supermarket had called her those names, Evelyn Couch had felt violated. Raped by words. Stripped of Everything.

Fannie Flagg

#2. This is the man who called the fire department when the toilet backed up, and I'm asking him for help. What was I thinking? Why am I attracted to weak men?

Christopher Moore

#3. The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#4. Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.

Aristotle.

#5. Writing is how I understand everything that happens. Writing is the only way I know to move on.

Delia Ephron

#6. Growing up, I stayed in a child's place. My father was murdered when I was 20. I was a model and never had a real job and my parents took care of me.

LisaRaye McCoy-Misick

#7. To create a work of art is to create the world.

Wassily Kandinsky

#8. Evelyn stared into the empty ice cream carton and wondered where the smiling girl in the school pictures had gone.

Fannie Flagg

#9. When I am in the country, I wish to vegetate like the country.

William Hazlitt

#10. It was a stretch to imagine that Barbara Walters might want to give it all up for Ed Couch, but Evelyn tried her hardest. Of course, even though she was not religious, it was a comfort to know that the Bible backed her up in being a doormat.

Fannie Flagg

#11. You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

Charlie Haden