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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
Enigma
Almighty
Prove
Women
Men
Enigmas

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... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.
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Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.
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It is difficult to deal successfully, he decided, with a woman whose feelings cannot be hurt.
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Though it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
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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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In her single person she managed to produce the effect of a majority.
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No one in the modern world is more lonely than the writer with a literary conscience.
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I have little faith in the theory that organized killing is the best prelude to peace.
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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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Dignity is an anachronism.
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After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour
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Few forms of life are so engaging as birds.
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Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.
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the old alone have finality. What is true of the young today may be false tomorrow. They are enveloped in emotion and emotion as a state of being is fluent and evanescent.
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Theories have nothing to do with life.
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... the life of the mind is reality, and love without romantic illumination is a spiritless matter.
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To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.
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No, one couldn't make a revolution, one couldn't even start a riot, with sheep that asked only for better browsing.
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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
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