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
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All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.
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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.
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... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
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No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
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I don't know how race would have affected it,
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Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting.
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Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.
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It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
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The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.
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Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
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The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.
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Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?
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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.
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Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.