Fannie Hurst

“Some people think that you have to be the first to do something. I think you just have to be the best.”

“A woman has to be twice as good as a man to go half as far.”

“The first hundred years are the hardest.”

“Home is the nicest word there is.”

“God is the experience of looking at a tree and saying, 'Ah!'”

“Imagination is the highest kite that can fly.”

“It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money.”

“Laughter is a sunbeam of the soul.”

“An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies.”

“Any woman who has a great deal to offer the world is in trouble. And if she's a writer, she's in real trouble.”

“To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest.”

“A fool must now and then be right, by chance.”