Edna Ferber Quotes

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
Edna Ferber

Christmas, Feeling, Season

A closed mind is a dying mind.
Edna Ferber

Mind, Dying, Closed

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Edna Ferber

Death, Struggle, After

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
Edna Ferber

Mean, Big, Violets

A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
Edna Ferber

Struggle, Woman, Moral

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
Edna Ferber

Life, Love, Death

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

Business, Lonely, Past

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

Beautiful, Living, Next

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

Somebody, Cut, Becoming

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
Edna Ferber

Politics, Women, Wrong

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
Edna Ferber

Bad, Everything, Perhaps

Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
Edna Ferber

Read, Seen, Writers

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: August 15, 1885

Died: April 16, 1968

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