Quotes from Susan Glaspell

Love always, in one way or another, means pain as well as joy.

Declining to go to church with my parents in the morning, I would ostentatiously set out for the Monist Society in the afternoon, down an obscure street which it seemed a little improper to be walking on, as everything was closed for Sunday, upstairs through a sort of side entrance over a saloon.

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

What men have thought about life in the past is less important than what you feel about it to-day.

Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.

The biggest stories are written about the things which draw human beings closer together.

We don't see the Bible as it is itself. We see it in relation to a lot of people who surround it. And because we don't care for some of them, we think we shouldn't care for it.

I'm not sure I would be a good godmother. I have read about it, and I found that the godmother's position is to take care of the morals of the child. I don't know how good I would be at that.

Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.

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.

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.

We're all made of the same kind of stuff, and there's none of us made of stuff that's flawless.

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

The facts of another's life do not illumine. Only when we know the heart can we know that life. Only the feeling that made the days can light them.

Humility's a real thing - not just a fine name for laziness.

What is a clock? Something agreed upon and arbitrarily imposed upon us. Standard time. Not true time. Symbolizing the whole standardization of our lives.

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

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

Women are used to worrying over trifles.

To cease to love -- that is defeat.

I live by the sea, but the body of water I have the most feeling about is the Mississippi River, where I used to row and skate, ride on the ferry in childhood, watch the logs or just dream.

I would supplant the ox with the automobile and pave instead of plowing the fields. 1 have a theory that if a corn field were paved, leaving out a brick for each hill, it would increase the yield, do away entirely with the mud, and give the farmer plenty of time to meditate on lofty subjects. That is only one theory. I have many others.

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.

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.