Edna Ferber Quotes

Dinner parties are for eating, not mating.

Science had married the wilderness and was taming the savage shrew.

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

It was part of the Texas ritual… We know about champagne and caviar but we talk hog and hominy.

America—rather, the United States—seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm-hearted, over friendly; quick-witted, lavish, colorful; given to extravagant speech and gestures; its people are travellers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment; volatile.

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.