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

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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
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It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.
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for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.
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Nothing, except the weather report or a general maxim of conduct, is so unsafe to rely upon as a theory of fiction.
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There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.
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Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.
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But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
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. . . 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.
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Surely one of the peculiar habits of circumstances is the way they follow, in their eternal recurrence, a single course. If an event happens once in a life, it may be depended upon to repeat later its general design.
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Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.
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Too much principle is often more harmful than too little.
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What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.
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My first reading of Tolstoy affected me as a revelation from heaven, as the trumpet of the judgment. What he made me feel was notthe desire to imitate, but the conviction that imitation was futile.
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To a thrifty theologian, bent on redemption with economy, there are few points of ethics too fine-spun for splitting.
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One cannot lay a foundation by scattering stones, nor is a reputation for good work to be got by strewing volumes about the world.
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it is wiser to be conventionally immoral than unconventionally moral. It isn't the immorality they object to, but the originality.
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. . . 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.
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To seize the flying thought before it escapes us is our only touch with reality.
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