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? Susan Glaspell Read Quote
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. Susan Glaspell Read Quote
Chicago is many things to many people, and to me, it is a place where you can write. Susan Glaspell Read Quote
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. Susan Glaspell Read Quote
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 wrong notion of things. Susan Glaspell Read Quote
We’re all made of the same kind of stuff, and there’s none of us made of stuff that’s flawless. Susan Glaspell Read Quote
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 Read Quote
I go about in the world – free, busy, happy. Among people, I have no time to think of myself. Susan Glaspell Read Quote
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. Susan Glaspell Read Quote
