Quotes by Susan Glaspell

About Susan Glaspell:

Susan Keating Glaspell was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actress, novelist, and journalist. With her husband George Cram Cook she founded the Provincetown Players, the first modern American theater company. During the Great Depression she served in the Works Progress Administration as Midwest Bureau Director of the Federal Theater Project.
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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.

Susan Glaspell

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

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

Susan Glaspell

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

Susan Glaspell

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.

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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...

Susan Glaspell

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

Susan Glaspell

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

Susan Glaspell

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.

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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.

Susan Glaspell

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 res...

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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?

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

Susan Glaspell

Most of the people of this world are coated round and round with self-esteem, and they're afraid to admit any understanding of the things which aren't good.

Susan Glaspell

We all have a fight - some an easy one, and some a big one, and if you have formed the idea that there is a kind of dividing line in the world, and that on the one side is the good, and on the other side the bad, why, all I can say is that you have a...

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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.

Susan Glaspell

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.

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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.

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

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

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Author Bio

  • NameSusan Glaspell
  • DescriptionAmerican writer
  • BornJuly 1, 1876
  • DiedJuly 27, 1948
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionJournalist; Author; Novelist; Playwright
  • AwardsPulitzer Prize For Drama