When 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.


A Kind of Magic: An Autobiography (ed. Vintage, 2014) - ISBN: 9780345805805

Edna Ferber Quotes

When 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,...

When 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,...

When 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,...

When 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,...