Ellen Glasgow

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#forward #growth #movement

Doesn't all experience crumble in the end to mere literary material? ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#end #experience #in the end #literary #material

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#dry #fire #haven #i #much

No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#idea #modern #no idea #once #someday

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

#book #dead #dry #dust #ended

Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#both #commands #crude #distorted #life

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#how #important #react #you

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#enigmas #knows #men #more #prove

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#down #knitting #like #sit #trouble

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice. ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#learn #self #teach #twice