Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted.
Ellen GlasgowNo 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 GlasgowPassion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.
Ellen GlasgowI was always a feminist, for I liked intellectual revolt as much as I disliked physical violence. On the whole, I think women havelost something precious, but have gained, immeasurably, by the passing of the old order.
Ellen Glasgow