Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes
A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.
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I was a big 'Battlestar Galactica' fan and 'Star Trek' fan. I grew up watching those.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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I've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
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I am sure that the party system is right and necessary. There must be some scum.
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There was something to me that was really compelling about that woman, already knowing she couldn't get pregnant. When I made that movie I was maybe 24, and to be 24 and already know you can't get pregnant, that was really interesting to me.
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I like writing idealistically, romantically and swashbucklingly.
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
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Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
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I don't look like a desert person because I stay indoors most of the day and fool around at night. That's what the desert animals do - they don't have a tan either.
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We think nothing of protecting consumers from faulty toasters or unsafe cars. Is it unreasonable to suggest that investors are entitled to information they can trust before investing their hard-earned money? I don't think it's unreasonable at all.
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I was taught from a young age that many people would treat me as a second-class citizen because I was African-American and because I was female.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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Doubt yourself and you doubt everything you see. Judge yourself and you see judges everywhere. But if you listen to the sound of your own voice, you can rise above doubt and judgment. And you can see forever.
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Adolescence as the time when an individual 'recapitulates' the savage stage of the race's past.
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I don't think anyone really is interested in reading about my emotional state. It's not even interesting to me.
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It's silly to call me the new Ed Sheeran. He can fill stadiums as a solo artist, but I'm not like that.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
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My mom put me in dance classes when I was 5 years old.
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Giving up attachment to the world does not mean that you set yourself apart from it. Generating a desire for others to be happy increases your humanity. As you become less attached to the world, you become more humane. As the very purpose of spiritual practice is to help others, you must remain in society.
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A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.
