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
women almighty enigma
Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
winning love-is way
The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.
dog men doe
Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?
women knitting trouble
Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
birthday lovely forget-the-past
It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
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
reality ideas flying
No idea is so antiquitated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not some day be antiquitated . . . to seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
book writing night
As far back as I remember, long before I could write, I had played at making stories. But not until I was seven or more, did I begin to pray every night, "O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!"
giving joy childhood
The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.
past law may
But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.
change stress humor
The only difference between a rut and a grave are the dimensions.
human-nature humans overestimate
It is human nature to overestimate the thing you've never had.
inspirational motivational happiness
What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
repetition stale
Words, like acts, become stale when they are repeated.