Ellen Glasgow Long Quotations

... so long as the serpent continues to crawl on the ground, the primary influence of woman will be indirect ...

A good novel cannot be too long nor a bad novel too short.

Only on the surface of things have I ever trod the beaten path. So long as I could keep from hurting anyone else, I have lived, as completely as it was possible, the life of my choice. I have been free. . . . I have done the work I wished to do for the sake of that work alone.

So long as one is able to pose one has still much to learn about suffering.

Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.

Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.