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1885–1968 United States

Edna Ferber (August 15, 1885 – April 16, 1968) was a Jewish-American novelist, short story writer and playwright.

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It takes a brave, courageous, determined woman to make tea biscuit for no one but herself.

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

Bernie occupied the great leather chair by the fire, a modish semi-invalid in his Charvet dressing gown of maroon faille brought from Paris by Lotta.

Come and get it (1935)

The persecution, torture, and death of six million European Jews had actually brought little or no protest from a Christian world whose religion was based on the teachings of a Jew.

One basket (1947)

On his face was a queer look-the look of one who is embarrassed because he is about to say something honest.

One basket (1947)

She seized hungrily upon the stray crumbs of conversation that fell to her.

One basket (1947)

It takes a determined woman to make tea biscuit for no one but herself.

One basket (1947)

The sharp-tongued Kitty O’Hara used to say that being an old maid was a great deal like death by drowning—a really delightful sensation when you ceased struggling.

Dawn O'Hara: The Girl Who Laughed (1911)

New life must come from within. As for contentment-I don't even want it.

A Peculiar Treasure (1939)

"It's just something that only luck or an accident can mend," said the nerve specialist. "Time may do it but I doubt it. Sometimes just a word-the right word-will set the thing in motion again. Does he get any letters?"

One basket (1947)

She seemed to put an enormous amount of energy into those cleanings-as if they were a sort of safety valve.

One basket (1947)

It marked an epoch in Chet's life-that letter. It reached out across the Atlantic Ocean from the Chester Ball of his Chicago days, before he had

One basket (1947)

the habit of years is not easily overcome.

One basket (1947)

I loved the newspaper work, but I like fiction better. Newspaper writing is fine but it doesn’t do to stay at it too long.

Interview (1924)

It is a pattern of self-immolation familiar to any writer worth reading. The writer does not even remotely look upon this as a hardship. It is a way of life; a necessary an chosen way of life. Witty conversation, purposely dull dialogue, love, murder, marriage, birth, violence, triumph, failure, death—anything can happen in that room.

A Kind of Magic (1963)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edna Ferber (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.