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
baseball dirty men
Any man who can look handsome in a dirty baseball suit is an Adonis. There is something about the baggy pants, and the Micawber-shaped collar, and the skull-fitting cap, and the foot or so of tan, or blue, or pink undershirt sleeve sticking out at the arms, that just naturally kills a man's best points.
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.
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.
mother men
Men often marry their mothers.
beautiful men tree
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.
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.
death defeat itself life love lover until writer
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
realize terrible until
It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
food roast
Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.
texas yesterday alive
Texas history is a varied, tempestuous, and vast as the state itself. Texas yesterday is unbelievable, but no more incredible than Texas today. Today's Texas is exhilarating, exasperating, violent, charming, horrible, delightful, alive.
giving world littles
Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.