Being an old maid is like death by drowning, a really delightful sensation after you cease to struggle.
Edna Ferber

A closed mind is a dying mind.
Edna Ferber

Christmas isn't a season. It's a feeling.
Edna Ferber

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
Edna Ferber

A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
Edna Ferber

Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
Edna Ferber

Any 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 Ferber

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
Edna Ferber