Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
Quotes to Explore
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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A lot of business can be accomplished in the state dinners.
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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I have been running since I was 7. I was trying to restructure the way my body was made instead of trying to master the way I ran. I would get so frustrated with my starts in practices that I would just cry. When I ran, I wouldn't even try to get out of the blocks, I would just run.
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I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.
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I wanted to live the life, a different life. I didn't want to go to the same place every day and see the same people and do the same job. I wanted interesting challenges.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I like Noah from 'The Notebook.' One - hundred percent. I fall in love with him so hard.
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That image is a couple different people's homes that I knew growing up.
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Actually, I bought one share of Warren Buffett's stock, probably 35 years ago, in order to read his letters.
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I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
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When I was born, my parents - my mother especially - couldn't come to terms with that fact that they had another baby girl. I know these stories in detail because every time a guest visited, or there was a gathering, they repeated this story in front of me that how I was the unwanted child.
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I'm a better actor because I'm a mother, I think.
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I would love to work with Christopher Nolan, 100 percent.
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Rooting from the sidelines is the most democratic of sporting rites: no skyboxes, no tickets required, just an unabashed will to holler and wave.
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The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty.
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Over the last several years, I've passed defunding Planned Parenthood, the sonogram bill, voter ID. I passed the TSA anti-groping bill, sanctuary cities, loser pay, border security, and the toughest Jessica's law in the entire nation against sexual predators.
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Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
