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
life women struggle
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
struggle memorable looks
A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
inspirational women mean
Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
men flavor yeast
The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor.
children book generations
Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history.
life thinking way
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?
home clothes everyday
... home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.
summer spring promise
Spring ... made fair false promises which summer was called upon to keep.
special youth young
I suppose it is a gift, being young, but it isn't special. We've all got it, early in life.
texas way easier
Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.
two people emeralds
There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.
girl new-york air
In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker, and the buildings are higher, and the streets are wider, and the air is finer, than the sky, or the grass, or the girls, or the steaks, or the air of any place else in the world.
diversity mind dying
A closed mind is a dying mind.
writing climbing interesting
Only amateurs say that they write for their own amusement. Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth. Writing may be interesting, absorbing, exhilarating, racking, relieving. But amusing? Never!