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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
Writer
Appleton
Wisconsin
Men
Hearing
Tired
Woman
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Writing is not an amusing occupation. It is a combination of ditch-digging, mountain-climbing, treadmill and childbirth.
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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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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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Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.
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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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... 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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A placated bully is a hand-fed bully.
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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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People permit life to slide past them like a deft pickpocket, their purse-not yet missed and now too late-in his hand.
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I like any place that isn't here.
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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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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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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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Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
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The writer is a writer because he cannot help it. It is a compulsion.
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Writing, to be memorable, must be done in a state of impassioned serenity.
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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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Now gae your wa'sTho'anes as gude As ever happit flesh and blude, Yet part we maunthe case sae hard is, Amang the writers and the bardies That lang they'll brook the auld I trow, Or neibours cry,'Weel brook the new'.
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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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