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Christmas is not a season. It is a feeling.
— Edna Ferber
A closed mind is a dying mind.
— Edna Ferber
I like any place that isn't here.
— Edna Ferber
One can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic.
— Edna Ferber
A closed country is a dying country... A closed mind is a dying mind.' from a radio broadcast in 1947
— Edna Ferber
A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.
— Edna Ferber
Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
— Edna Ferber
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
— Edna Ferber
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
You can run, but what are you running from? Your life? You can't run away from your life.
— Edna Ferber
[On Edna Ferber's Ice Palace] ... the book, which is going to be a movie, has the plot and characters of a book which is going to be a movie.
— Dorothy Parker
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
— Edna Ferber
Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing - for life itself is a writer's love until death.
— Edna Ferber
Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.
— Edna Ferber
But I have felt that to be a Jew was, in some ways at least, to be especially privileged.
— Edna Ferber
The astronomers tell us that other planets are gifted with two - four - even nine lavish moons. Imagine the romantic possibilities of nine moons.
— Edna Ferber
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
— Edna Ferber
A whole roomful of Jews is like a charged battery. The vitality sparks seem to fly, and frequently the result is a short circuit.
— Edna Ferber
Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.
— Edna Ferber
It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.
— Edna Ferber
Celebratin' New Year's Eve is like eatin' oranges. You got to let go your dignity t' really enjoy 'em.
— Edna Ferber
But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.
— Edna Ferber
Death-bed promises should be broken as lightly as they are seriously made.
-The Gay Old Dog — Edna Ferber
-The Gay Old Dog — Edna Ferber
There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak.
— Edna Ferber
A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.
— Edna Ferber
A woman can look both moral and exciting ... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
— Edna Ferber
Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to live it?
— Edna Ferber
Men often marry their mothers.
— Edna Ferber
It's fun telling you tall Texas tales. You always look like a little girl who's hearing Cinderella for the first time.
— Edna Ferber
People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.
— Edna Ferber
There are ... just two kinds of girls. Those who go down town Saturday nights, and those who don't.
— Edna Ferber
There's no sauce for play like work.
— Edna Ferber
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
We no longer build fireplaces for physical warmth-we build them for the warmth of the soul; we build them to dream by, to hope by, to home by.
— Edna Ferber
The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.
— Edna Ferber
I never would just open a door and walk through, I had to bust it down for the hell of it. I just naturally liked doing things the hard way.
— Edna Ferber
Sweat and blood and health and youth go into every cabbage. Did you know that, Julie? One doesn't despise them as food, knowing that.
— Edna Ferber
It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
— Edna Ferber
I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work that a woman can do well.
— Edna Ferber
About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.
— Edna Ferber
Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.
— Edna Ferber
Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to.
— Edna Ferber
It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
— Edna Ferber
I suppose it is a gift, being young, but it isn't special. We've all got it, early in life.
— Edna Ferber
Jane Austen. Anyway, I'm not
— Edna Ferber
A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.
— Edna Ferber
That just goes to show, remarked Pearlie, that you must never judge a woman in a kimono or a bathing suit.
— Edna Ferber
Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.
— Edna Ferber
Cherry cobbler is shortcake with a soul.
— Edna Ferber
If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.
— Edna Ferber
No one in the United States has the right to own millions of acres of American land, I don't care how they came by it.
— Edna Ferber
No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.
— Edna Ferber