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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
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Appleton
Wisconsin
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The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.
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To be alive is a fine thing. It is the finest thing in the world, though hazardous. It is a unique thing. It happens only once in a lifetime. To be alive, to know consciously that you are alive, and to relish that knowledge -- this is a kind of magic. Or it may be a kind of madness, exhilarating but harmless.
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here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.
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Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.
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Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
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People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.
Edna Ferber
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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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
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writers of novels are so busy being solitary that they haven't time to meet one another. But then, a writer learns nothing from a writer, conversationally. If a writer has anything witty, profound or quotable to say he doesn't say it. He's no fool. He writes it.
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I never would just open a door and walk through, I had to bust it down for the hell of it. I just naturally liked doing things the hard way.
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Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.
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Christmas is not a season. It is a feeling.
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But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.
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don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?
Edna Ferber
... 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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A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.
Edna Ferber
Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.
Edna Ferber
There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what language they may speak.
Edna Ferber
A writer's working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn't.
Edna Ferber
