Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber
Edna Ferberwas an American novelist, short story writer and playwright. Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big, Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth15 August 1887
CityKalamazoo, MI
CountryUnited States of America
men would-be tough
If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.
men world why-me
Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.
tired men hearing
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.
oklahoma states happened
Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.
names people giving
Nicknames are fond names. We do not give them to people we dislike.
love christmas feelings
Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
girl women hair
[Women] ... is nothin' but little girls in long skirts, and their hair done up.
dream home soul
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.
garden green weapons
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.
trying fool love-conquers-all
Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to.
bullying hands bully
A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.
rich poor social
The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.
acceptance men land
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.
wine men europe
Most of the men regarded Europe as a wine list. In their mental geography Rheims, Rhine, Moselle, Bordeaux, Champagne, or Würzburg were not localities but libations.