Quotes by Edna Ferber

• If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
• 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.
• Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
• Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
• 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.
• Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.
• Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
• Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
• 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.
• A closed mind is a dying mind.
• Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.