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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.

From Susan Glaspell

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

From Susan Glaspell

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

From 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.

From Susan Glaspell

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.

From Susan Glaspell

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.

From 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.

From 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.

From Susan Glaspell

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

From Susan Glaspell

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.

From Susan Glaspell

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