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Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere. — Laura Anne Gilman

The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It does not do to trust people too much. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The home is the center and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

My name is John Creedmoor, and I would like to confess my crimes. Hope you all weren't going anywhere this week ... — Felix Gilman

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

When we live with a memory we live with a corpse; the impact of the experience has changed us once but can never change us again. — Dorothy Gilman

John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Civilization did not come with fire. It came with the discovery of how to use fire to heat water. — Laura Anne Gilman

However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly! — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

(At the end of the nineteenth century, economist Charlotte Perkins Gilman complained that housework was the only job that had not been modernized.) — Ann Jones

Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

If there's one thing Robert had learned in three weeks at Lovecraft Middle School, it's that nothing was impossible. — Charles Gilman

The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food. — Dorothy Gilman

The people people have for friends
Your common sense appall
But the people people marry
Are the queerest folk of all. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A concept is stronger than a fact. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

What we do modifies us more than what is done to us. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able, - to dress and entertain, and order things — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Children put everything in perspective, they remind you of what's important, you see the world anew through there eyes. — Priscilla Gilman

While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

That's the thing about luxury, darlings. The moment you become accustomed to it, it is no longer a luxury but a necessity. People forget this. — Susan Jane Gilman

Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant! — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Before 'Moonrise,' I never thought I would be in a movie where I would be struck by lightning. — Jared Gilman

Until mothers earn their livings, women will not — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I was madly in love with not so much what was there as with what I supposed to be there. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I never saw a worse paper in my life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I am really indoors-y. I am a video game and movie buff, and this keeps me in my little boy cave. — Jared Gilman

Powerlessness is such a lure, such a poisonous lure. — Carolyn Ives Gilman

I think the technology today is so much more advanced that it gives kids a lot more freedom ... Back then it was a lot different. — Jared Gilman

The front pattern DOES move - and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it! — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Besides, nobody ever loves you the way you want. — Susan Jane Gilman

Every time we revise our history, we also revise the mythology of our history. — Laura Anne Gilman

It's compassion that makes gods of us. — Dorothy Gilman

A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it; why should a woman? — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat, the end of something never felt. — Dorothy Gilman

The best things arrive on time. — Dorothy Gilman

Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I'm perfectly natural the way I am. Why can't you humans ever understand that I might not want to be afflicted with gender? — Carolyn Ives Gilman

When a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness. — Dorothy Gilman

Old clothes, old friends, old books. One needs constants in a traveling life. — Dorothy Gilman

Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A girl doesn't need a guy in her life in order to act like a complete idiot. Certainly I, at least, never have. — Susan Jane Gilman

I called her "the Chiquita Banana Lady" and I meant it as a compliment: who didn't want to look adorable with a pile of fruit on her head? — Susan Jane Gilman

Woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I discovered I loved acting at a Summer Camp. That's when I really realised that I enjoyed it and that I wanted to try it. — Jared Gilman

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead. — Richard Gilman

I have opinions, sure, but they're mine, not something I'm going to insist everyone else take as any kind of gospel. — Laura Anne Gilman

When we use our past merely as a guide-book, and concentrate our noble emotions on the present and future, we shall improve more rapidly. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Everything else was in the past, and the past no longer mattered. — Laura Anne Gilman

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Embody the three harmonies: within; with others; and with nature. — Robert Gilman

You're an artist when you're writing, a businessperson the rest of the time. — Laura Anne Gilman

I'm kind of a huge movie buff and a video game nerd person. — Jared Gilman

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Clowns - feh! All that ghastly, forced gaiety, worse than New Year's Eve. — Susan Jane Gilman

If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time. — Dorothy Gilman

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Love grows by service. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Those who too patiently serve as props sometimes underrate the possibilities of the vine. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Life is a verb, not a noun. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women? — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I was always a very indoor videogame nerd movie buff ... Now I've come to appreciate Scouts and the outdoors. — Jared Gilman

I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Everything matters terribly to children, you know, they're fresh and unformed ... — Dorothy Gilman

Taking advantage of me in my sleep, archangel?
Gin — Sarah Purdy Gilman

The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There's heaven. There it is. What more do we mean? People, free to come together, and in beauty - for growth. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I have preferred chloroform to cancer — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I always lock the door when I creep by daylight. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Call it not paranoia, but caution. — Laura Anne Gilman

I'm not so arrogant to think I'm the only guide someone needs ... but I might be the guide that someone needs. — Laura Anne Gilman

A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Sure, beauty has the power to excite men. But so does a box of donuts. — Susan Jane Gilman

I knew I was really there, because I was the thing his arms encircled, the thing his love defined. — Carolyn Ives Gilman

One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman