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.

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.

Mother Knows Best.