Quotes & anectdotes from
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the foolish,
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Edna Ferber Novelist

  • Gender: Female
  • Citizenship: United States
  • Born: Aug 15, 1885
  • Died: Apr 16, 1968

Edna Ferber was 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.

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

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

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.

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

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