The maimed bodies aren't the worst. That's the easy way to hate war. The safe way. I - hate it just as much for the maimed souls that stay at home.

- Fannie Hurst

Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists' test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates from the climate of a…

- Fannie Hurst

The vast army of women seeking divorce are mainly after easy alimony from men they have ceased to love - surely one of the most despicable forms of b…

- Fannie Hurst

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

- Fannie Hurst

writing is the loneliest job in the world. There's always that frustrating chasm to bridge between the concept and the writing of it. We're a harasse…

- Fannie Hurst

A woman is not a whole woman without the experience of marriage. In the case of a bad marriage, you win if you lose. Of the two alternatives - bad ma…

- Fannie Hurst

Isn't success ridiculously easy, once it begins to succeed? ... after the strain and sweat and pushing until the very groins of your being shrieked p…

- Fannie Hurst

There is no adequate definition for creative writing, any more than it is possible to describe pain or flavor or color.

- Fannie Hurst

Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?

- Fannie Hurst