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- All animals, except man, know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. — Samuel Butler
- I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business. — Henry David Thoreau
- So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness. — David Herbert Lawrence
- Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death. — Edna Ferber
- If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics. — Edna Ferber
- A woman can look both moral and exciting... if she also looks as if it was quite a struggle. — Edna Ferber