Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.
Ellen GlasgowNo life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it for example by seeing it how it could be worse and then being grateful it isn't.
Ellen GlasgowThe attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.
Ellen GlasgowSo long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect.
Ellen Glasgow