"It is dull enough to confuse the eye……" — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions."
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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68 Quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman has 68 quotes on this site.
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I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.
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The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
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Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in…
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A concept is stronger than a fact.
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The children in this country are the one center and focus of all our thoughts. Every step of our advance…
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It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.
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It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one…
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Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential…
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In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
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Life is a verb, not a noun.
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While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year,…
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