Imitation of Life
A source page for quotes linked to Fannie Hurst.
“A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.”
“Luscious feet that listened to the soil and stole its secrets.”
“Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.”
“I would rather regret what I have done than what I have not.”
“[Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah.”
“Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.”
“It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.”
“Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it.”
“I'm not happy when I'm writing, but I'm more unhappy when I'm not.”