No life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.

The quote distinguishes between the objective difficulty of a life and the subjective experience of living it. Glasgow suggests that hardship is not only a matter of circumstance but also of attitude, interpretation, and chosen response: patience, humor, discipline, or acceptance can reduce suffering even when problems remain. The line is not naïve optimism—she does not claim one can erase hardship—but a practical ethic of agency. It aligns with a stoic idea that while we cannot always control events, we can control our manner of meeting them, thereby making life “easier” in the sense of more bearable and less internally corrosive.