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• Dinner parties are for eating, not mating.

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• Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.

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

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• It was part of the Texas ritual… We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

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• America—rather, the United States—seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm-hearted, over friendly; quick-witted, lavish, colorful; given to extravagant speech and gestures; its people are travellers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment; volatile.

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• I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.

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• Mother Knows Best.

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• A closed mind is a dying mind.

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• I don’t want life to imitate art. I want life to be art.

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• Christmas isn’t a season. It’s a feeling.

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• 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.

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• 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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• 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.

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• Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.

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• Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing – for life itself is a writer’s love until death.

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Edna Ferber (20)

Birth:	15th August, 1885
Death:	16th April, 1968
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Novelist, Playwright

About

Edna Ferber was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan. She was an American novelist and playwright. Her novels were especially popular and included the Pulitzer Prize-winning So Big, Show Boat, Cimarron, and Giant. She collaborated with Round Table member George S. Kaufman on several plays presented on Broadway, most notably The Royal Family, Dinner At Eight and Stage Door.

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