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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

“There is in every human being, I think, a native country of the mind, where, protected by inaccessible barriers, the sensitive dream life may exist safely.”

Thinking Mind Humans May Country Dream Human Beings Sensitive Native Barriers Protected Inaccessible Native Country

Book:Works

Source: Works

“But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.”

Thinking Looks Courses Speak Moron So Sad

Book:Letters of Ellen Glasgow

Source: Letters of Ellen Glasgow

“What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.”

People Thinking Two Together Fool Two Lives

Book:Vein of Iron

Source: Vein of Iron

“Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.”

Thinking World Passion Surface

Book:In This Our Life

Source: In This Our Life

“It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.”

Thinking Men Easy Convince Persuasion

Book:The Battle Ground

Source: The Battle Ground

“Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet there has not been, in all history, another agewhen so much sheer mental energy was directed toward creating a fairer social order.”

Thinking Moments Order Energy Social Justice History Creating Letters Social Justice Eras Thoughtful Customs Thinker Sheer Vulgar Victorian Social Order

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“...America has enjoyed the doubtful blessing of a single-track mind. We are able to accommodate, at a time, only one national hero; and we demand that that hero shall be uniform and invincible. As a literate people we are preoccupied, neither with the race nor the individual, but with the type. Yesterday, we romanticized the "tough guy;" today, we are romanticizing the underprivileged, tough or tender; tomorrow, we shall begin to romanticize the pure primitive.”

“I have watchedmany literary fashions shoot up and blossom, and then fade and drop.... Yet with the many that I have seen comeand go, I have never yet encountered a mode of thinking that regarded itself as simply a changing fashion, and not as an infallible approach to the right culture.”

Thinking Culture Literature Fashion Approach Thoughtful Fades Infallible Fads

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“I 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.”

Thinking Whole Order Violence Intellectual Feminist Passing Passings Revolt Physical Violence

Author:Ellen Glasgow

“... the novel, as a living force, if not as a work of art, owes an incalculable debt to what we call, mistakenly, the new psychology, to Freud, in his earlier interpretations, and more truly, I think, to Jung.”

Ifs Thinking Art Force Novel Psychology Debt Interpretation Works Of Art Jung

Author:Ellen Glasgow

About the Author

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

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Vein of IronRelated source material

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The DescendantRelated source material

Perfect Companionship: Ellen Glasgow's Selected Correspondence with WomenRelated source material

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