Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Glasgow
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgowwas an American novelist who portrayed the changing world of the contemporary south...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth22 April 1873
CityRichmond, VA
CountryUnited States of America
dog men doe
Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?
rain bars golden
After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour
success independence credit
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.
birthday lovely forget-the-past
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
winning numbers mediocrity
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
disappointment knowing littles
It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.
sentimental sentimentality
I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.
lonely loneliness world
No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
sarcastic majority produce
In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
trouble natural humans
The only natural human beings seem to be those who are making trouble.
giving sickness poor
That was the worst of being poor, you couldn't give the right things in sickness.
remembrance desire illogical
Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
heart happens
It is only in the heart that anything really happens.
risk quality audacity
audacity is of all qualities the most youthful.