Edna Ferber - So Big (1924)

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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.

Edna Ferber

There are only two kinds of people in the world that really count. One kind's wheat and the other kind's emeralds.

Edna Ferber

Housework's the hardest work in the world. That's why men won't do it.

Edna Ferber

He said that the war had disillusioned him. It was a word you often heard uttered as a reason or an excuse for abandoning the normal. "Disillusioned."

Edna Ferber

Any piece of furniture, I don't care how beautiful it is, has got to be lived with, and kicked about, and rubbed down, and mistreated by servants, and repolished, and knocked around and dusted and sat on or slept in or eaten off of before it develops its real character... A good deal like human beings.

Edna Ferber

About mistakes it's funny. You've got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs, they get mad.

Edna Ferber