Author: Ellen Glasgow

Quotes

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

- Ellen Glasgow

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

- Ellen Glasgow

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

- Ellen Glasgow

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

- Ellen Glasgow

There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.

There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.

- Ellen Glasgow

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

- Ellen Glasgow

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

- Ellen Glasgow

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

- Ellen Glasgow

No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.

No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.

- Ellen Glasgow

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