Susan Glaspell Quotes & Sayings

“I'm an American. We've translated democracy and brotherhood and equality into enterprise and opportunity and success - and that's getting Americanised.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

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