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Ellen Glasgow [1874-1945] American

Rank: 101
Novelist

Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was an American novelist who portrayed the changing world of the contemporary South.

Birthday, Change, Experience, History, Independence, Success, Wisdom, Women

Quote	Tags	Rank
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.	Birthday	101
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.	Change	102
The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.		103
What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.	Wisdom	104
Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.	Women	105
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.	Independence, Success	106
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.	Experience, History	107
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.		108
Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.		109
Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.		110
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.		111
No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.		112
Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.		113
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.		114
To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.		115
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?		116
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.		117
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.		118
He knows so little and knows it so fluently.		119
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.		120

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