Quotes from Ellen Glasgow
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
- Ellen Glasgow
Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
- Ellen Glasgow
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
- Ellen Glasgow
I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.
- Ellen Glasgow
Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
- Ellen Glasgow
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
- 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
it is good for a man to do right, and to leave happiness to take care of itself...
- Ellen Glasgow
Life is never what one dreams. It is seldom what one desires, but, for the vital spirit and the eager mind, the future will always hold the search for buried treasure and the possibility of high adventure.
- Ellen Glasgow
Longing to excel, he had never even succeeded. He had been hampered by not knowing a number of things the average man took for granted; but he was hampered still more by knowing a number of other things the average man had never suspected.
- Ellen Glasgow
Love comes, love goes; but comradeship is woven of an indestructible element.
- Ellen Glasgow
For knitting composed the mind; knitting served the necessary means of evasion; knitting constituted not only an escape, but a tangible protection, from husbands.
- Ellen Glasgow