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

No life is so hard that you cannot make it easier by the way you take it.
Ellen Glasgow

All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow

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

Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
Ellen Glasgow

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

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.
Ellen Glasgow

I waited and worked, and watched the inferior exalted for nearly thirty years; and when recognition came at last, it was too late to alter events, or to make a difference in living.
Ellen Glasgow