Quote

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

Ellen Glasgow

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Ellen Glasgow
Age: 71 †
Born: 1874
Born: April 22
Died: 1945
Died: November 21
Essayist
Novelist
Poet
Suffragette
Writer
Richmond
Virginia
Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow
Knitting
Trouble
Women
Like

More quotes by Ellen Glasgow

Image
Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
It was a perfect spring afternoon, and the air was filled with vague, roving scents, as if the earth exhaled the sweetness of hidden flowers.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
But youth isn't happy. Youth is sadder than age.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
It seems to me that this is the true test for poetry: - that it should go beneath experience, as prose can never do, and awaken an apprehension of things we have never, and can never, know in the actuality.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
She must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?
Ellen Glasgow
Image
But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
. . . every tree near our house had a name of its own and a special identity. This was the beginning of my love for natural things, for earth and sky, for roads and fields and woods, for trees and grass and flowers a love which has been second only to my sense of enduring kinship with birds and animals, and all inarticulate creatures.
Ellen Glasgow
Image
to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.
Ellen Glasgow