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Edna Ferber
American
Novelist
About the author
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
Edna Ferber,
American
Novelist
#American
#Wrong
#Women
#Politics
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,
American
Novelist
Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
Edna Ferber,
American
Novelist
#Writers
#Sight
Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
Edna Ferber,
American
Novelist
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
Edna Ferber,
American
Novelist
#People
#Past
#Living
#Business
#Lonely
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
Edna Ferber,
American
Novelist
#Life
#Love
#Death
#Writing
#Writer
#Defeat
Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
Edna Ferber,
American
Novelist
#Feeling
#Christmas
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Edna Ferber,
American
Novelist
#Death
#Being
#Old
#Struggle
A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
Edna Ferber,
American
Novelist
#Woman
#Struggle
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,
American
Novelist
#Longevity
#Man
#Living
#Potential
A closed mind is a dying mind.
Edna Ferber,
American
Novelist
#Mind
#Dying
Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
Edna Ferber,
American
Novelist
#Violets