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
energy disease
Energy had fastened upon her like a disease.
next fool firsts
First, I was an idealist (that was early - fools are born, not made, you know); next I was a realist; now I am a pessimist, and, by Jove! if things get much worse I'll become a humorist.
running spring flames
Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.
journey looks duty
You look as if you lived on duty and it hadn't;t agreed with you.
memories struggle grief
She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.
dog hurt uncles
. . . this rage - I have never forgotten it - contained every anger, every revolt I had ever felt in my life - the way I felt when I saw the black dog hunted, the way I felt when I watched old Uncle Henry taken away to the almshouse, the way I felt whenever I had seen people or animals hurt for the pleasure or profit of others.
moderation explosions
Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion
past discovery years
In the past few years, I have made a thrilling discovery ... that until one is over sixty, one can never really learn the secret of living. One can then begin to live, not simply with the intense part of oneself, but with one's entire being.
self teach
To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
children sky fire
The things I feared were not in the sky, but in the nature and in the touch of humanity. The cruelty of children . . . the blindness of the unpitiful - these were my terrors. But not the crash of thunder overhead, not the bolts of fire from the clouds.
men mind world
He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted - and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.
age twenties sound
Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
sarcastic majority produce
In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
strong support stand-alone
There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.