"If it's freedom you want, come to Texas.……" — Edna Ferber
"If it's freedom you want, come to Texas. No one there tells you what to do and how you have to do it."
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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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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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There is an interesting resemblance in the speeches of dictators, no matter what country they may hail from or what…
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