Best 34 quotes of Susan Glaspell on MyQuotes

A clock is a little machine that shuts us out from the wonder of time.

As I grow older, I think friendship between women is a thing to cherish.

But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage to desert it and walk right off from the dead thing to the live thing - ?

Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write.

Even though you've given up a past it hasn't given you up. It comes uninvited - and sometimes half welcome.

For nothing is so hard to hear as that which is half known, and evaded. One never denies so hotly as in denying to one's self what one fears is true, and one never resents so bitterly as in resenting that which one cannot say one has the right to resent.

Hurts of childhood live on; in one form or other they are there to the end.

I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.

I can't think of any sorrow in the world that a hot bath wouldn't help, just a little bit.

I go about in the world - free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to think of myself.

Im an American. Weve translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and thats getting Americanised.

In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.

It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.

Not having children makes less work-but it makes a quiet house.

Resentment opens no door and breeds no courage.

Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men.

Some days are happy days - of themselves, as if for their own sakes. They seem to be enjoying themselves, regardless of what use may be made of them.

Strength diminishes when it seems we are spending it in vain.

That's the worst of a war--you have to go on hearing about it so long.

The only man who knows just what he thinks at the present moment is the man who hasn't done any new thinking in the past ten years.

There is good and there is bad in every human heart, and it is the struggle of life to conquer the bad with the good.

There's one form of immortality I like to think about. It's that all those who from the very first have given anything to the world are living in the world to-day.

They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.

Those who never sail stormy waters are the quickest and harshest judges of bad seamanship.

We all go through the same things - it's all just a different kind of the same thing.

What we seek we do not find - that would be too trim and tidy for so reckless and opulent a thing as life. It is something else we find.

... you can't put out a light just because it may light the wrong person.

I'd hate to have men coming into my kitchen, snooping around and criticising.

No, Mrs. Peters doesn’t need supervising. For that matter, a sheriff’s wife is married to the law.

No, Peters, it's all perfectly clear except a reason for doing it. But you know juries when it comes to women.

Oh, I wish I’d come over here once in a while! That was a crime! That was a crime! Who’s going to punish that?

We are living now. We shall not live long. No one should tell us we shall live again. This is our little while. This is our chance.

We live close together and we live far apart. We all go through the same things-it's all just a different kind of the same thing.

Well, women are used to worrying over trifles.