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Edna Ferber was an American novelist renowned for her rich imagination and profound social insight. Her works often feature female protagonists, exploring the status and roles of women in society. Her representative works include 'The Great Gatsby' and 'Anna Karenina'.

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“Does one eat peanuts at a ball game?' 'It ain't hardly legal if you don't.”

Ifs Doe Games Baseball Balls Peanuts Ball Games

Book:Buttered Side Down

Source: Buttered Side Down

“If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.”

Ifs Men Would Be Tough Scared Tough Women

Author:Edna Ferber

“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.”

Ifs Writing Novel Havens Fool Profound Busy Witty Solitary

Book:A Kind of Magic

Source: A Kind of Magic

“Opinion! If every one had so little tact as to give their true opinion when it was asked this would be a miserable world.”

Ifs World Giving Littles Would Be Opinion Miserable Tact

Book:Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney

Source: Roast Beef, Medium: The Business Adventures of Emma McChesney

“No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.”

Ifs Ought Intelligent

Book:Show Boat ; So Big ; Cimarron: Three Living Novels of American Life

Source: Show Boat ; So Big ; Cimarron: Three Living Novels of American Life

“I sometimes wonder ... if the land is not destroying the people who inhabit it as the people who inhabit it are destroying the land. A magic continent, a Peculiar Treasure, stuffed with riches, millions in it are starving in the midst of plenty.”

People Ifs Sometimes Wonder Millions Magic Land Riches Treasure Plenty Midst Destroying Peculiar Continents Starving

Book:A Peculiar Treasure

Source: A Peculiar Treasure

“I sat staring up at a shelf in my workroom from which thirty-one books identically dressed in neat dark green leather stared back at me with a sort of cold hostility like children who resent their parents. Don't stare at us like that! they said. Don't blame us if we didn't turn out to be the perfection you expected. We didn't ask to be brought into the world.”

Ifs World Children Said Book Turns Asks Parent Dark Cold Perfection Blame Green Expected Staring Thirty Sat They Said Shelves Hostility Leather Neat Resent

Book:A Kind of Magic

Source: A Kind of Magic

“The ideal view for daily writing, hour for hour, is the blank brick wall of a cold-storage warehouse. Failing this, a stretch of sky will do, cloudless if possible.”

Ifs Writing Hours Views Failing Sky Wall Cold Ideals Blank Bricks Storage Warehouse Brick Wall

Book:A Kind of Magic: An Autobiography

Source: A Kind of Magic: An Autobiography

“A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.”

Ifs Looks Women Moral Struggle Exciting Memorable

Author:Edna Ferber

“If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it.”

Book:Giant

Source: Giant

“If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.”

Ifs Literature Dirty Nasty American Politics

Book:Cimarron

Source: Cimarron

“Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature.”

Ifs Has Beens Literature Cutting Becoming Fit Splendid Garments Stature

Author:Edna Ferber

“But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.”

Ifs Knows Happens Adventure Baghdad

Author:Edna Ferber

“About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.”

People Ifs Trying Mistake Mad

Book:Show Boat ; So Big ; Cimarron: Three Living Novels of American Life

Source: Show Boat ; So Big ; Cimarron: Three Living Novels of American Life

About the Author

Born: August 15, 1885
Died: April 16, 1968
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 104

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