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
affected race
I don't know how race would have affected it,
american-novelist change movement
All change is not growth; all movement is not forward.
advice agree beginning prove taking word
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.
romance literature innocence
... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.
american-novelist easier hard life
No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
repetition stale
Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.
human-nature humans overestimate
It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
women almighty enigma
Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
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.
remembrance desire illogical
Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
distance passion light
idealism, that gaudy coloring matter of passion, fades when it is brought beneath the trenchant white light of knowledge. Ideals, like mountains, are best at a distance.