Susan Glaspell
Susan Keating Glaspell (July 1, 1876 – July 27, 1948) was an American Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright, actress, director, novelist, biographer and poet. She was a founding member of the Provincetown Players, one of the most important collaboratives in the development of modern drama in the United States. She also served in the Works Progress Administration as Midwest Bureau Director of the Federal Theater Project.
Her novels and plays are committed to developing deep, sympathetic characters, to understanding 'life' in its complexity. Though realism was the medium of her fiction, she was also greatly interested in philosophy and religion. Many of her characters make principled stands.
As part of the Provincetown Players, she arranged for the first ever reading of a play by Eugene O'Neill.
“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.”
“They made small effort to cover their raw souls with the mantle of commonplace words.”
“It was all very unmaidenly, of course; but maidenly is a word love and life and desire may crowd from the page.”
“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 resent.”
“Come, little one, and let us learn of love.”
“Little dictionary sprite, sunshine vendor, and girl to be loved.”
“Ah, dreams which even thoughts must not touch - so wonderful and sacred they were.”
“... and most of all she wondered about the man at the next table whose voice was like... like a dream which she did not know that she had dreamed.”
“She murmured a 'Thank you', seated herself and her buried hopes in this chair which did not whirl round, and leaned her arms upon a table which did not even dream in mahogany.”
“Be the most you can be, so life will be more because you were.Susan Glaspell, author ”
“Nothing here but kitchen things.”