Susan Glaspell
Susan Glaspell
Susan Keating Glaspellwas an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actress, novelist, and journalist. With her husband George Cram Cook she founded the Provincetown Players, the first modern American theater company. During the Great Depression she served in the Works Progress Administration as Midwest Bureau Director of the Federal Theater Project...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth1 July 1876
CountryUnited States of America
motivation vain spending
Strength diminishes when it seems we are spending it in vain.
light wrong-person may
... you can't put out a light just because it may light the wrong person.
brave desert gone
But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?
defeat cease
To cease to love -- that is defeat.
opportunity brotherhood democracy
Im an American. Weve translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and thats getting Americanised.
time clock standards
What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.
artist care defeat
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.
effort soul made
They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.
self half deny
For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true, and one never resents so bitterly as in resenting that which one cannot say one has the right to resent.
knowledge men thinking
The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.
thinking world firsts
There's one form of immortality I like to think about. It's that all those who from the very first have given anything to the world are living in the world to-day.
denial hell suppression
It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.
would-be reckless tidy
What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.
heart light feelings
The facts of another's life do not illumine. Only when we know the heart can we know that life. Only the feeling that made the days can light them.