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 the skins.
Ellen GlasgowThe age is a vociferous one, and no prophet is without honor who is able to strike an attitude and to speak loud enough to make himself heard.
Ellen GlasgowShe must face her grief where the struggle is always hardest-in the place where each trivial object is attended by pleasant memories.
Ellen GlasgowConscience represents a fetich to which good people sacrifice their own happiness, bad people their neighbors'.
Ellen Glasgow...I had grown up in a world that was dominated by immature age. Not by vigorous immaturity, but by immaturity that was old and tired and prudent, that loved ritual and rubric, and was utterly wanting in curiosity about the new and the strange. Its era has passed away, and the world it made has crumbled around us. Its finest creation, a code of manners, has been ridiculed and discarded.
Ellen Glasgow