“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

“Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?”

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

“Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.”

Ellen Glasgow

“Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion”

Ellen Glasgow