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Ellen Glasgow, an American novelist, was born on April 22, 1873, and died on November 21, 1945. Her works are known for their profound psychological insights and critical portrayal of the Southern society.

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Famous Ellen Glasgow Quotes

“Youth is the season of tragedy and despair. Youth is the time when one's whole life is entangled in a web of identity, in a perpetual maze of seeking and of finding, of passion and of disillusion, of vague longings and of nameless griefs, of pity that is a blade in the heart, and of 'all the little emptiness of love.”

“anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.”

Heart Anger Jealousy Nerves

Book:Works

Source: Works

“If broken hearts could kill, the earth would be as dead as the moon.”

Ifs Heart Would Be Earth Grief Broken Moon

Book:Vein of Iron

Source: Vein of Iron

“It is only in the heart that anything really happens.”

Heart Happens

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life - the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being.”

Heart Joy Time Anguish Heartbeat Me Alone Gleam Alone Time Quiver

Book:Works

Source: Works

“Spring, which germinated in the earth, moved also with a strange restlessness, in the hearts of... women. As the weeks passed, inextinguishable hope, which mounts with the rising sap, looked from their faces.”

Heart Earth Faces Healing Week Strange Spring Moved Rising Restlessness Sap

Book:The Miller of Old Church

Source: The Miller of Old Church

About the Author

Born: April 22, 1873
Died: November 21, 1945
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 191

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