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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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Famous Edna Ferber Quotes

“Any man who can look handsome in a dirty baseball suit is an Adonis. There is something about the baggy pants, and the Micawber-shaped collar, and the skull-fitting cap, and the foot or so of tan, or blue, or pink undershirt sleeve sticking out at the arms, that just naturally kills a man's best points.”

Men Looks Feet Arms Baseball Blue Suits Dirty Pants Handsome Caps Fitting Sleeves Skulls Collars Sticking Out Baggy Pants Micawber

Author:Edna Ferber

“Men often marry their mothers.”

Book:Saratoga Crunk

Source: Saratoga Crunk

“Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.”

Men World Hardest Housework Why Me

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

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

“Most of the men regarded Europe as a wine list. In their mental geography Rheims, Rhine, Moselle, Bordeaux, Champagne, or Würzburg were not localities but libations.”

Men He Man Europe Wine Lists Geography Champagne Locality Bordeaux

Book:Gigolo

Source: Gigolo

“The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is flat, without tang or flavor.”

Men Results He Man Bread Flats Feminine Ingredients Sugar Flavor Masculine Whisky Yeast

Book:A Kind of Magic

Source: A Kind of Magic

“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

“I am not belittling the brave pioneer men but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.”

Men Wells Motivational Culture History Land Acceptance Diversity Social Justice Brave Settling Glorious Pioneers Belittle Sombreros

Author:Edna Ferber

“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.”

Men Wells Can Do Tired Hearing I'm Tired

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

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

“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.”

Men Beautiful Next Literature Tree Objects Touching Longevity Wounded Living Things Admirable

Book:A Kind of Magic

Source: A Kind of Magic

About the Author

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

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