Edna Ferber
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A woman can look book moral and exciting ... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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Being an old maid is like death by drowning -- really a delightful sensation after you
have ceased struggling.
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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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Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
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There is no denying the fact that writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they
a winsome sight.
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When playwright Noel Coward ran into novelist Edna Ferber and both were wearing nearly
identical suits, he said, "Edna, you look almost like a man." "So do
you," she replied. [quoted in The American Women's Almanac, Louise Bernikow]
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A closed mind is a dying mind.
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• Each quotation
page in this collection and the entire collection are © Jone Johnson Lewis
1997-2004. This is an informal collection -- if you need citations for the
original source, I don't have those available unless they're listed with the
quotes.
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