If men ever discovered how tough women actually are, they would be scared to death.

- Edna Ferber

I think in order to write really well and convincingly, one must be somewhat poisoned by emotion, dislike, displeasure, resentment, fault-finding, im…

- Edna Ferber

Whoever said love conquers all was a fool. Because almost everything conquers love - or tries to.

- Edna Ferber

Roast Beef, Medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy. Seated at Life's Dining Table, with the menu of Morals before you, your eye wanders a bit…

- Edna Ferber

The feminine in the man is the sugar in the whisky. The masculine in the woman is the yeast in the bread. Without these ingredients the result is fla…

- Edna Ferber

A closed mind is a dying mind.

- Edna Ferber

There are ... just two kinds of girls. Those who go down town Saturday nights, and those who don't.

- Edna Ferber

It's terrible to realize that you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die; and, then it's too late.

- Edna Ferber

About mistakes it's funny. You got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs they get mad.

- Edna Ferber