168 Quotes by 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.

No sooner do you get a field cleared of them than within another year a new layer has somehow worked its way to the surface. It’s my opinion they boil up from hell, those stones, cooling on the way.

A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it’s ready to serve.

Some day the marriageable age for women will be advanced from twenty to thirty, and the old maid line will be changed from thirty to forty. When that time comes there will be surprisingly few divorces. The husband of whom we dream at twenty is not at all the type of man who attracts us at thirty.

And within her something was screaming: “Oh, my God! Oh, my God! He knows French. And those girls that can row and everything. And me, I don’t know anything. Oh, God, what’ll I do?

You just look upon life as an annoying interruption to ranching.