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I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is woman's work that a woman can do well.

Edna Ferber

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Edna Ferber
Age: 80 †
Born: 1887
Born: August 15
Died: 1968
Died: April 16
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Screenwriter
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Appleton
Wisconsin
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In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks are thicker, and the buildings are higher, and the streets are wider, and the air is finer, than the sky, or the grass, or the girls, or the steaks, or the air of any place else in the world.
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A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.
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Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.
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Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.
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No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.
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Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.
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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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Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.
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But I have felt that to be a Jew was, in some ways at least, to be especially privileged.
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... home isn't always the place where you were born and bred. Home is the place where your everyday clothes are, and where somebody or something needs you.
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People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.
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There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.
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Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death – fascinating, cruel, lavish, warm, cold, treacherous, constant.
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It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few words to use as tools. There isn't time for bad writing in a short story.
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It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
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Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
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You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.
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We no longer build fireplaces for physical warmth—we build them for the warmth of the soul we build them to dream by, to hope by, to home by.
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A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.
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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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