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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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I knew I wanted to do something creative, and you don't necessarily go to Harvard to do that. It's not the best choice for creative writing.
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Higher education is an advantage, no longer a guarantee.
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Potomac School proved to be my first big adjustment - one that helped me with a basic lesson of growing up: learning to get along in whatever world one is deposited.
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The Democratic Party is always going to be the party of civil rights and fairness - everybody gets an equal, fair shot at the American dream. And we're going to be the party that really fights to protect planet Earth - enjoy whatever time we're going to get!
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I think about people and events in terms of archetypes a lot.
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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.
