77 Quotes by Susan Glaspell

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

I admire Virginia Woolf so much that I wonder why I don't like her more. She makes the inner things real, she does illumine, and she makes relationships realities as well as people. But I remember the intensity, the thrill, with which I read 'Passage to India.' How I would have hated anyone who took the book away from me.

I often think of the different ways Goethe and Darwin got at evolution. Goethe had the poetic conception of it all right; Darwin worked it out step by step. Who's ahead? And which has any business scoffing at the other?