Author: Ellen Glasgow

Quotes

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

- Ellen Glasgow

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

- 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

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

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

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

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

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

- 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

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

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