8 Quotes By Ellen Glasgow


It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
Ellen Glasgow on birthday

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow on change

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 on experience

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
Ellen Glasgow on experience

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 on history

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 on success

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.
Ellen Glasgow on women

All change is not growth; all movementis not forward.
Ellen Glasgow on change