What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
Ellen Glasgow
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
Ellen Glasgow
No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.
Ellen Glasgow
Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
Ellen Glasgow
Nothing in life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it.
Ellen Glasgow
No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.
Ellen Glasgow
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
Ellen Glasgow
Women are one of the Almighty’s enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
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
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
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
To teach one’s self is to be forced to learn twice.
Ellen Glasgow
The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
Ellen Glasgow
He knows so little and knows it so fluently.
Ellen Glasgow
I haven’t much opinion of words. They’re apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that’s what I say.
Ellen Glasgow
Doesn’t all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
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
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
