Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Ellen Glasgow (American Novelist)

Ellen Glasgow (1874–1945,) fully Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow, was an American novelist, essayist, and short-story writer. She was celebrated for her realistic depictions of the nineteenth- and twentieth-century women living in a protective Southern culture.

Born to an aristocratic Virginia family in Richmond, Virginia, Glasgow was groomed to be a typical Southern belle. She refused her formal society début and started writing full-length novels.

The Voice of the People (1900) was the first of a series of novels portraying the social and political background of Virginia from 1850 to the 1940s. The Voice of the People was followed by The Deliverance (1904,) Virginia (1913,) and In This Our Life (1941; Pulitzer.)

Glasgow’s best-known novels are Barren Ground (1925,) The Romantic Comedians (1926,) The Sheltered Life (1932,) and Vein of Iron (1935.)

Glasgow’s collection of critical essays is A Certain Measure (1943.) Her memoirs, The Woman Within (1954,) were published posthumously. An epilogue to In This Our Life is Beyond Defeat (1966.)

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All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Change, Growth, Improvement, One liners

Nothing in life is so hard that you can’t make it easier by the way you take it.
Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Choice, Attitude, Adversity, Acceptance, Perception

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.
Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Experience

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.
Ellen Glasgow

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Violence

I suppose I am a born novelist, for the things I imagine are more vital and vivid to me than the things I remember.
Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Writing

I’m not going to lie down and let trouble walk over me.
Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Strength

He knows so little and knows it so fluently.
Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Knowledge

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Excellence

Women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting.
Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Trouble

I haven’t much opinion of words. They’re apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that’s what I say.
Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Words

He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted—and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone.
Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Farming

I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end.
Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Advice

The older I grow the more earnestly I feel that the few joys of childhood are the best that life has to give.
Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Childhood

The only difference between a rut and a groove is their dimensions.
Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Habit, Change

Women are one of the Almighty’s enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do.
Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Men

There wouldn’t be half as much fun in the world if it weren’t for children and men, and there ain’t a mite of difference between them under their skins.
Ellen Glasgow
Topics: Man

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