M. F. K. Fisher Quotes About Hunger

Quotes about: Hunger

• It seems to me that our three basic needs, for food and security and love, are so mixed and mingled and entwined that we cannot straightly think of one without the others. So it happens that when I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and the hunger for it… and then the warmth and richness and fine reality of hunger satisfied… and it is all one.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Writing, Reality

  The Gastronomical Me foreword (1943).

• I am more modest now, but I still think that one of the pleasantest of all emotions is to know that I, I with my brain and my hands, have nourished my beloved few, that I have concocted a stew or a story, a rarity or a plain dish, to sustain them truly against the hungers of the world.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Thinking, Hands

  M. F. K. Fisher, Joan Reardon (2004). “The Art of Eating”, p.402, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• When I write of hunger, I am really writing about love and the hunger for it, and warmth and the love of it and it is all one.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Food, Writing, Hunger

  The Gastronomical Me foreword (1943).

• I cannot count the good people I know who to my mind would be even better if they bent their spirits to the study of their own hungers.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  People, Mind, Would Be

  Joan Reardon, M.F.K. Fisher (2014). “The Art of Eating”, p.385, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

• There is a communication of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine is drunk. And that is my answer when people ask me: Why do you write about hunger, and not wars or love.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  War, Food, Communication

• Hunger is more than a problem of belly and guts, and ... the satisfying of it can and must and does nourish the spirit as well as the body.

  M. F. K. Fisher

  Doe, Body, Spirit

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