Ellen Glasgow
13 quotes
Biography
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for the Novel in 1942 for her novel In This Our Life. She published 20 novels, as well as short stories, to critical acclaim.
"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."
"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."
"Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?"
"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."
"Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting."
"Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion"
"Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do."
"He knows so little and knows it so fluently."
"The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions."
"All change is not growth as all movement is not forward."
"Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it."
"He who demands little gets it."
"Cruelty is the only sin."