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. – Edna Ferber
A woman can look both moral and exciting… if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle. – Edna Ferber
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there’s something wrong with American politics. – Edna Ferber
It’s terrible to realize you don’t learn how to live until you’re ready to die, and then it’s too late. – Edna Ferber
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. – Edna Ferber
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. – Edna Ferber
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. – Edna Ferber
Life can’t defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer’s lover until death. – Edna Ferber