All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
—Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Change, Growth, Improvement, One liners
Nothing in life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it.
—Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Choice, Attitude, Adversity, Acceptance, Perception
No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
—Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Experience
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
—Ellen Glasgow
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
—Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Violence
I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.
—Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Writing
I’m not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.
—Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Strength
He knows so little and knows it so fluently.
—Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Knowledge
Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
—Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Excellence
Women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting.
—Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Trouble
I haven’t much opinion of words. They’re apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that’s what I say.
—Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Words
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.
—Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Farming
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.
—Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Advice
The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.
—Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Childhood
The only difference between a rut and a groove is their dimensions.
—Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Habit, Change
Women are one of the Almighty’s enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
—Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Men
There wouldn’t be half as much fun in the world if it weren’t for children and men, and there ain’t a mite of difference between them under their skins.
—Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Man
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