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 believe that working with good people matters because then the work environment is good. If there is a sense of respect and belief among the people you work with, that is when good work is done.
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My dream is to live a good life and be loving, be close to God and be a good human being and bring peace to people.
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Lois: Oh, you guys have enough to worry about with your careers and all. You don't need to hear about my problems.Ginger: Are you kidding? I'd much rather hear about your problems than work on my dissertation.Lois: Thank you, Ginger. Considering you'd rather fellate Bill Clinton than work on your dissertation, that's very generous.
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I don't have doctrinaire views about how we should relate to Asia. But novelists reflect the world they live in, and that world propels you, to some extent. I'm a creature of the British Empire, and of the period of transition from the Empire.
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I don't know of a soul who packed more living into 72 years than Charles Lindbergh did.
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Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
