Edna Ferber - Cimarron (1920)

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The Oklahoma wind tortured her. It rattled the doors and windows; it whirled the red dust through the house; its hot breath was on her agonized face as she lay there; if allowed its own way it leaped through the rooms, snatching the cloth off the table, the sheets off the bed, the dishes off the shelves.

Edna Ferber

But always, to her, red and green cabbages were to be jade and burgundy, chrysoprase and prophyry. Life has no weapons against a woman like that.

Edna Ferber

He's going for the adventure of it. They always have, no matter what excuse they've given, from the Holy Grail to the California gold fields. The difference in America is that the women have always gone along.

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No woman ought to pretend she's intelligent. And if she is she ought to have the intelligence to pretend she isn't.

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Anything can have happened in Oklahoma. Practically everything has.

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I am not belittling the brave pioneer men, but the sunbonnet as well as the sombrero has helped to settle this glorious land of ours.

Edna Ferber

Tulsa, oil capital of the world, as it calls itself, is a tough, get-rich-quick, heady town about as sensitive as corduroy.

Edna Ferber