Fannie Hurst Quotes


Charm is an odorless perfume, which cannot be anchored in the chemists' test tube. It is a permeation, a radiation. It emanates from the climate of a warm human spirit, which not only contains light, but gives it off.


Citations

Hurst, Fannie. Qtd. in The Quotable Woman: 1800-1975, edited by Elaine Partnow, Corwin Books, 1977.

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Fannie Hurst
Fannie Hurst
  • Born: October 19, 1885
  • Died: February 23, 1968
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Novelist, Writer

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.