Quotes by

Ellen Glasgow

Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting. – Ellen Glasgow

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

Doesnt 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. – 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. – Ellen Glasgow

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. – Ellen Glasgow

The age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard. – Ellen Glasgow

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give. – Ellen Glasgow

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. – Ellen Glasgow

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. – Ellen Glasgow