"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."

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Source : Edna Ferber (2013). “So Big”, p.19, Harper Collins

Edna Ferber

#Garden Quotes #Green Quotes #Weapons Quotes

“Acting is one of these things that I can't really describe - it's just like, why do you love your mum and dad? You know, you just do.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I don't like publicity, being in the limelight.”

Source : "Ince the manager keeps eyes open - all night". Interview With Dominic Fifield, www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2006.
“If we can choose where to cry, at home or with a few people who will be fully understanding, perhaps we will feel easier. But if we can't - if we are in church and a hymn catches us off guard, or at a football game and we remember being there with a son or daughter now gone - well, the earth is our home and we can cry where we want.”
“The Christian stands, not under the dictatorship of a legalistic 'you ought,' but in the magnetic field of Christian Freedom, under the empowering of the 'You may.'”

Source : Helmut Thielicke (1966). “Theological Ethics: Foundations”
“Women tend to have a better track record in investing - when they invest - than men do, because they tend to take a longer-term perspective. They tend to trade less. They tend to shift in and out of stocks or mutual funds less often.”

Source : "Sallie Krawcheck of Ellevest and the Gender Investing Gap". Interview with Denver Frederick, www.denver-frederick.com. August 18, 2016.
“It is in war that the State really comes into its own: swelling in power, in number, in pride, in absolute dominion over the economy and the society.”
“The world is poised on the cusp of an economic and cultural shift as dramatic as that of the Industrial Revolution.”
“I don't need a reason to kill myself-I need a reason not to.”

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