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
war men killing-others
Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men.
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 people world
I go about in the world - free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to think of myself.
men past important
What men have thought about life in the past is less important than what you feel about it to-day.
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.
use may sake
Some days are happy days - of themselves, as if for their own sakes. They seem to be enjoying themselves, regardless of what use may be made of them.
time machines littles
A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.
hurt childhood ends
Hurts of childhood live on; in one form or other they are there to the end.
war long goes-on
That's the worst of a war--you have to go on hearing about it so long.
water judging criticism
Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.
doors resentment
Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage.