A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle.
Edna FerberThere are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.
Edna FerberAny 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 FerberAbout 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 FerberAmerica -- rather, the United States -- seems to me to be the Jew among the nations. It is resourceful, adaptable, maligned, envied, feared, imposed upon. It is warm-hearted, over-friendly; quick-witted, lavish, colorful; given to extravagant speech and gestures; its people are travelers and wanderers by nature, moving, shifting, restless; swarming in Fords, in ocean liners; craving entertainment; volatile. The chuckle among the nations of the world.
Edna Ferber