Life cant defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writers lover until death. – Edna Ferber
Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle. – Edna Ferber
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, theres something wrong with American politics. – Edna Ferber
A woman can look both moral and exciting… if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle. – Edna Ferber
Nature looks dead in winter because her life is gathered into her heart. She withers the plant down to the root that she may grow it up again fairer and stronger. She calls her family together within her inmost home to prepare them for being scattered abroad upon the face of the earth. – Hugh Macmillan, “Rejuvenescence,” The Ministry of Nature, 1871