Edna Ferber Quotes
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~ Edna Ferber Quote
A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
~ Edna Ferber Quote
A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
~ Edna Ferber Quote
Your idea of bliss is to wake up on a Monday morning knowing you haven't a single engagement for the entire week. You are cradled in a white paper cocoon tied up with typewriter ribbon.
~ Edna Ferber Quote
Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.
~ Edna Ferber Quote
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
~ Edna Ferber Quote
Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death-fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.
~ Edna Ferber Quote
I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.
~ Edna Ferber Quote
Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
~ Edna Ferber Quote
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
~ Edna Ferber Quote
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
~ Edna Ferber Quote
Living in the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.
~ Edna Ferber Quote
People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.
~ Edna Ferber Quote
To be alive is a fine thing. It is the finest thing in the world, though hazardous. It is a unique thing. It happens only once in a lifetime. To be alive, to know consciously that you are alive, and to relish that knowledge - this is a kind of magic. Or it may be a kind of madness, exhilarating but harmless.
~ Edna Ferber Quote
A closed mind is a dying mind.
~ Edna Ferber Quote
Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
~ Edna Ferber Quote
America / rather, the United States / seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm-hearted, over-friendly; quick-witted, lavish, colorful; given to extravagant speech and gestures; its people are travelers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment; volatile. The chuckle among the nations of the world.
~ Edna Ferber Quote
I think that in order to write really well and convincingly, one must he somewhat poisoned by emotion. Dislike, displeasure, resentment, faultfinding, imagination, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice -- they all make fine fuel.
~ Edna Ferber Quote
Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.
~ Edna Ferber Quote
Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
~ Edna Ferber Quote
