Top 20 Quotes by Ellen Glasgow

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated.

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material?

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

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

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.