"I am not belittling the brave pioneer men……" — Edna Ferber
"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."
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39 Quotes by Edna Ferber
Edna Ferber has 39 quotes on this site.
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A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
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Writers should be read but not seen. Rarely are they a winsome sight.
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If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have…
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America -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful,…
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It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn't here.
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In New York the sky is bluer, and the grass is greener, and the girls are prettier, and the steaks…
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Funny, isn't it, how your whole life goes by while you think you're only planning the way you're going to…
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I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment,…
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I'm tired of hearing you men say that this and that and the other isn't woman's work. Any work is…
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A story must simmer in its own juice for months or even years before it's ready to serve.
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Wasn't marriage, like life, unstimulating and unprofitable and somewhat empty when too well ordered and protected and guarded. Wasn't it…
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But almost any place is Baghdad if you don't know what will happen in it.
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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
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Confine yourself to the present.
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort…
— Alan Ball
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Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself.
— Honore de Balzac
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The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth.
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Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,…
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To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object.
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It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient.
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I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of…
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It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate…
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