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 on business
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. Edna Ferber on death
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death. Edna Ferber on death
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics. Edna Ferber on politics
Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling. Edna Ferber on christmas
Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded? Wasn't it finer, more splendid, more nourishing, when it was, like life itself, a mixture of the sordid and the magnificent; of mud and stars; of earth and flowers; of love and hate and laughter and tears and ugliness and beauty and hurt? Edna Ferber on marriage
A woman can look both moral and exciting - if she also looks as if it were quite a struggle. Edna Ferber on women