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Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.

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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
Almighty
Prove
Women
Men
Enigmas
Enigma

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Of one thing alone I am very sure: it is a law of our nature that the memory of longing should survive the more fugitive memory of fulfillment.
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The hardest thing for me is the sense of impermanence. All passes nothing returns.
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Theories have nothing to do with life.
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I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.
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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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It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.
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the great novels have marched with the years. They are the contemporaries of time.
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America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind.
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Dignity is an anachronism.
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In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
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