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The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

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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
Believe
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People
Habit
Stay
Fight
Fighting
Opportunity
Young
Thing
Ruts

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