Experience has taught me that the only cruelties people condemn are those with which they do not happen to be familiar.
Ellen GlasgowI 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.
Ellen GlasgowKnowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.
Ellen GlasgowThough it sounds absurd, it is true to say I felt younger at sixty than I felt at twenty.
Ellen Glasgow