Source: So Big
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Famous Edna Ferber Quotes
Source: A Peculiar Treasure: Autobiography
Source: Giant
Source: Show Boat
Source: Half Portions
Source: So Big
“People in big empty places are likely to behave very much as the gods did on Olympus.”
Source: Giant
“[Women] ... is nothin' but little girls in long skirts, and their hair done up.”
Source: Buttered Side Down
Source: Buttered Side Down
Source: Cheerful—By Request
Source: Cheerful—By Request
“It was part of theTexas ritual? We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.”
“Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.”
Source: A Kind of Magic
“Men often marry their mothers.”
Source: Saratoga Crunk
Source: So Big
“You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.”
Source: Saratoga Crunk
“Bizarre as was the name she bore, Kim Ravenal always said she was thankful it had been no worse.”
Source: Show Boat ; So Big ; Cimarron: Three Living Novels of American Life
“Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.”
Source: Buttered Side Down
“The goat's business is none of the sheep's concern.”
Source: Saratoga Crunk
Source: Fanny Herself
“don't you hate people who say they're not complaining and then complain?”
Source: Great Son
“I like any place that isn't here.”
Source: Gigolo
“Cherry cobbler is shortcake with a soul.”
Source: Gigolo
Source: Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney
Source: SHOW BOAT SO BIG CIMARRON
“Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.”
Source: Show Boat ; So Big ; Cimarron: Three Living Novels of American Life
Source: A Peculiar Treasure
“But I have felt that to be a Jew was, in some ways at least, to be especially privileged.”
Source: Giant
Source: A Kind of Magic
“Nicknames are fond names. We do not give them to people we dislike.”
Source: A Peculiar Treasure
Source: Buttered Side Down
“Spring ... made fair false promises which summer was called upon to keep.”
Source: American Beauty
“Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.”
Source: Show Boat ; So Big ; Cimarron: Three Living Novels of American Life
“here in Texas maybe we've got into the habit of confusing bigness with greatness.”
Source: Giant
“Take Texas the way Texas takes bourbon. Straight. It goes down easier.”
Source: Giant
Source: Gigolo
Source: A Kind of Magic
“If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.”
Source: A Kind of Magic