Some 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. – Ellen Glasgow
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions. – Ellen Glasgow
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. – Ellen Glasgow
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I dont embrace trouble; thats as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say: meet it as a friend, for youll see a lot of it, and had better be on speaking terms with it. – Oliver Wendell Holmes