Author: Ellen Glasgow

Quotes

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

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

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

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

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

- 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

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

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