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Fannie Hurst was an American novelist and short-story writer whose works were highly popular during the post-World War I era. Her work combined sentimental, romantic themes with social issues of the day, such as women's rights and race relations. She was one of the most widely read female authors of the 20th century, and for a time in the 1920s she was one of the highest-paid American writers. Hurst also actively supported a number of social causes, including feminism, African American equality, and New Deal programs.Although her novels, including Lummox , Back Street , and Imitation of Life , lost popularity over time and were mostly out of print as of the 2000s, they were bestsellers when first published and were translated into many languages. She also published over 300 short stories during her lifetime. Hurst is known for the film adaptations of her works, including Imitation of Life , Four Daughters , Imitation of Life , Humoresque , and Young at Heart . Wikipedia  

✵ 18. October 1889 – 23. February 1968
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Famous Fannie Hurst Quotes

“Oh—oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?”

Fannie Hurst

Lummox (1923)

“Dawn—then a blue, wintry sky, the color and hardness of enamel; and sunshine, bright, yet so far off the eye could stare up to it unsquinting.”

Fannie Hurst

Gaslight Sonatas (1918)

“Do you know it is said that on the Desert of Sahara, the slope of Sorrento, and the marble of Fifth Avenue the sun can shine whitest? There is an iridescence to its glittering on bleached sand, blue bay, and Carrara façade that is sheer light distilled to its utmost.”

Fannie Hurst

Gaslight Sonatas (1918)

“Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.”

Fannie Hurst

Source: Lummox (1923)

“Luscious feet that listened to the soil and stole its secrets.”

Fannie Hurst

Lummox (1923)

“Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.”

Fannie Hurst

Lummox (1923)

“It was any hotel suite now—uncompromising; leave me or take me.”

Fannie Hurst

Gaslight Sonatas (1918)

“The heart has a resiliency. Strained to breaking, it can contract again. Even the waiting women, Iseult and Penelope, learned, as they sat sorrowing and watching, to sing to the swing of the sea.”

Fannie Hurst

Gaslight Sonatas (1918)

“A woman still has to be twice as good as a man in order to get half as far.”

Fannie Hurst

Source: From speech at the National Conference of Women sponsored by “The New York Times.” https://quoteinvestigator.com/2020/01/07/twice-good/#return-note-437251-1 Beth Blair. Women Will Have New World Status, Miami Daily News, April 27 1943, page 11A, Column 5.

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