Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes

You think you have mastered it the wallpaper pattern, but just as you get well under way in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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• I'm an old-fashioned girl, and I didn't believe in living with people, so I guess I married for the wrong reasons at times.

  

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• I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.

  

  Gary Johnson
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• Hospice is such a tremendous thing. Patients seem to reach an inner peace.

  

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• I live in England, so I take a lot of trains, and you can't really go anywhere without somebody talking on their mobile phone behind you, forcing you to listen to their conversation. With the Internet, with texting, with networking sites, there's already information everywhere.

  

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• The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!

  

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• We women must listen to our inner voice. It is easier for women to do this as they are not afraid to say what they feel.

  

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• I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.

  

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• I'm not a good dancer, but I try. I don't really have the moves.

  

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• I want to be someone who can be a role model to kids - and to everyone, for that matter.

  

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• Billy Wilder is really is a heavy influence on Bound. We felt that film noir was a genre where you could create a really contained story. We wanted to be on a set as much as we could to get the kind of style level we were looking for.

  

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• We sat down and read it for the first time and I thanked God under my breath, because they were all so good. And my leading ladies are both exceptional. I mean, everybody in the play. I could just go on all night about them.

  

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• There's something about the expanse of nature that forces you to think clearly.

  

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• From as early as I can remember, I was focused on becoming a lawyer.

  

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• My life has never been easy. It's like all the major events of my life have always been difficult.

  

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• With participation in politics so low at the moment I think Christians should ensure their views are represented at all levels and not leave it to others.

  

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• When I was younger, I used to find stories about divas charming. Not much anymore.

  

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• Literature, like memory, selects only the vivid patches.

  

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• The mouse that always trusts to one poor hole Can never be a mouse of any soul.

  

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• The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.

  

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• Why should we pay so much attention to what the majority thinks?

  

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• An action will not be right unless the will be right; for from thence is the action derived. Again, the will will not be right unless the disposition of the mind be right; for from thence comes the will.

  

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• What's brilliant about the United States system of government is separation of power. Not only the executive, legislative, judicial branches, but also the independence of the military from civilians, an independent media and press, an independent central bank.

  

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• kk kk ggg ddd wowo well uh, well, no, well sa-ay. I I I know know know I I can but it's ha ha ha hard.

  

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• You think you have mastered it the wallpaper pattern, but just as you get well under way in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you.

  

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman