Edna Ferber

Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. ”

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics. ”

A closed mind is a dying mind. ”

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets. ”

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death. ”

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects. ”

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way. ”

Any garment which is cut to fit you is much more becoming, even if it is not so splendid as a garment which has been cut to fit somebody not of your stature. ”

Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. ”