Ellen Glasgow

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

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. ”

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. ”

No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it. ”

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. ”

Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. ”

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. ”

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. ”

Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance. ”