But I have felt that to be a Jew was, in some ways at least, to be especially privileged.
Edna FerberOne can summon courage and fortitude to face tragedy; irritations and frustrations are a cloud of mosquitoes that nip and sting and drive one frantic.
Edna FerberBeing an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Edna FerberWhen a new post-war generation has grown to puberty and to youth and to manhood and womanhood, it should read, and it should be realistically told, of the futility, the idiocy, the utter depravity of war. For that matter, this instruction could begin at the age of six with the taking of those toy guns out of those toy holsters and throwing them in the ash-cans where they belong.
Edna Ferber