Susan Glaspell

It is through suppression that hells are formed in us.

— Susan Glaspell

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

— Susan Glaspell

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

— Susan Glaspell

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

— Susan Glaspell

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

— Susan Glaspell

I live by the sea, but the body of water I have the most feeling about is the Mississippi River, where I…

— Susan Glaspell

But mayn't desertion be a brave thing? A fine thing? To desert a thing we've gone beyond - to have the courage…

— Susan Glaspell

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

— Susan Glaspell

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

— Susan Glaspell

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

— Susan Glaspell

In writing ... remember that the biggest stories are not written about wars, or about politics, or even murders. The biggest stories…

— Susan Glaspell

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

— Susan Glaspell

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

— Susan Glaspell

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

— Susan Glaspell

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

— Susan Glaspell

Seems nothing draws men together like killing other men.

— Susan Glaspell

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

— Susan Glaspell

I often think of the different ways Goethe and Darwin got at evolution. Goethe had the poetic conception of it all right;…

— Susan Glaspell

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

— Susan Glaspell

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

— Susan Glaspell

“Ah, dreams which even thoughts must not touch - so wonderful and sacred they were.”

— Susan Glaspell

“She murmured a 'Thank you', seated herself and her buried hopes in this chair which did not whirl round, and leaned her…

— Susan Glaspell

I would supplant the ox with the automobile and pave instead of plowing the fields. 1 have a theory that if a…

— Susan Glaspell

Some days are happy days - of themselves, as if for their own sakes. They seem to be enjoying themselves, regardless of…

— Susan Glaspell

I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it…

— Susan Glaspell