Edna Ferber

But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that. ↗

— Edna Ferber

#optimism #life

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little. ↗

— Edna Ferber

#everything #little #much #perhaps #too

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

— Edna Ferber

#being #cease #death #delightful #drowning

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

— Edna Ferber

#big #mean #necessarily #than #violets

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

— Edna Ferber

#both #exciting #look #looks #moral

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

#bump #business #causing #dull #going

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

— Edna Ferber

#feeling #season

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

#becoming #been #cut #even #fit

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

— Edna Ferber

#american politics #dirty #part #politics #something

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

— Edna Ferber

#defeat #itself #life #love #lover