Ellen Glasgow Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was a Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist from Richmond, Virginia.Beginning in 1897, Glasgow wrote twenty.

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Ellen Glasgow Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow was a Pulitzer Prize winning American novelist from Richmond, Virginia.Beginning in 1897, Glasgow wrote twenty novels and many short stories, mainly about life in Virginia. Her own education had been rudimentary, a more.. more..

“ Ellen Glasgow:I agree with every word you write, and I can prove this in no better way than by taking your advice from beginning to end. #Advice#Advice

“ Ellen Glasgow: All change is not growth; all movement is not forward. #Change#Change

“ Ellen Glasgow: He knows so little and knows it so fluently. #Knowledge #Knowledge

“ Ellen Glasgow: No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. #Choice#Choice

“ Ellen Glasgow: He felt with the force of a revelation that to throw up the clods of earth manfully is as beneficent as to revolutionize the world. It was not the matter of the work, but the mind that went into it, that counted -- and the man who was not content to do small things well would leave great things undone. #Farming and Farmers#Farming and Farmers

“ Ellen Glasgow:No idea is so antiquated that it was not once modern. No idea is so modern that it will not someday be antiquated. #Ideas#Ideas

“ Ellen Glasgow:Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. #Literature#Literature

“ Ellen Glasgow: 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. #Experience #Experience

“ Ellen Glasgow:The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions. #Churches#Churches

“ Ellen Glasgow: Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it. #Attitude#Attitude

“ Ellen Glasgow: I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say. #Words#Words

“ Ellen Glasgow: Some women like to sit down with trouble as if it were knitting. #Trouble#Trouble

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