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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Most big companies work in stealth until they think they have a consumer product ready to go.
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I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.
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Before I had satellite radio installed in my car, I thought I would lose my mind listening to commercials and having limited choices on the dial. Your car is your home in L.A., so you've got to have some good stuff to listen to.
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In the Pythagorean system, thinking about numbers, or doing mathematics, was an inherently masculine task. Mathematics was associated with the gods, and with transcendence from the material world; women, by their nature, were supposedly rooted in this latter, baser realm.
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To try and to pretend that there's no difference between where we come from is so dumb.
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Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
