Edna Ferber Quotes

Living in the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles and causes you to bump into people not going your way.

“It’s woman’s intuition when we win,” Emma observed, thoughtfully. “When we lose it’s a foolish, feminine notion.”

There are people who will tell you that no girl possessing a grain of common sense and a little nerve need go hungry, no matter how great the city. Don’t you believe them.

Woman’s work! Housework’s the hardest work in the world. That’s why men won’t do it.

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.

Big doesn’t necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren’t better than violets.

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.