168 Quotes by Edna Ferber

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

No one in the United States has the right to own millions of acres of American land, I don’t care how they came by it.

It’s been my experience,” observed Emma McChesney, “that when a firm condescends to pay a woman twice as much as a man, that means she’s worth six times as much.

A writer’s working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn’t.

Life cannot defeat a writer who is in love with writing – for life itself is a writer’s love until death.

What could be more exciting! As long as you’re fascinated and as long as you keep on fighting the things you think are wrong, you’re living. It isn’t the evil people in the world who do the most harm. It’s the sweet do-nothings that can destroy us.

I’m not much to look at”, replied Elizabeth, “but I’m beautiful inside.

A closed country is a dying country... A closed mind is a dying mind.′ from a radio broadcast in 1947.

A woman can look both moral and exciting – if she also looks as if it were quite a struggle.′ quoted in Reader’s Digest interview in 1954.