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Ellen Glasgow Quotes

Ellen Glasgow quotes

American Novelist March 22, 1874 – November 21, 1945

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Ellen Glasgow quote: "It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own,..."
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me. Ellen Glasgow
Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead. 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 afternoon slipped away while we talked -- she talked brightly when any subject came up that interested her -- and it was the last hour of day -- that grave, still hour when the movement of life seems to droop and falter for a few precious minutes -- that brought us the thing I had dreaded silently since my first night in the house. Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Glasgow quote: "Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is..."
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Glasgow quote: "Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by..."
Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Glasgow quote: "No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way..."
No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it. Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Glasgow quote: "it is good for a man to do right, and to leave happiness to..."
...it is good for a man to do right, and to leave happiness to take care of itself... Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Glasgow quote: "There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one..."
There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone. Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Glasgow quote: "All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Glasgow quote: "To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice."
To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice. 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
Ellen Glasgow quote: "Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that..."
Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do. Ellen Glasgow
I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living. 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. Ellen Glasgow

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