Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: July 3, 1860 - August 17, 1935

Topics

HappinessWorldBelieveNeedMust

Even though I've got quite a bit of singing experience, I still get nervous when stretchin' my pipes.

Jim Nabors

ExperienceSingingNervousGotGet

In India, at the community level, young men are playing an absolutely essential role in changing the cultural norms and deeply held practices concerning women. They are doing this in a way that not only empowers women and girls, but really empowers the young men as well.

Melanne Verveer

WomenCommunityMenDoingYoungWay

Sharon Stone has made a fortune from her movies, so who says you can't get something for nothing?

Jeff Giles

YouStoneMoviesNothingFortune

I think being ambitious, successful, powerful, making a lot of money - I don't care what color you are as a woman; it's difficult to find a mate. I think the natural order is that men want to be providers.

Stephanie Allain

MoneyMenWomanColorThinkCare

China's use of 'night soil,' as the Chinese rightly call a manure that is collected after dark, is probably the reason that its soils are still healthy after four millennia of intensive agriculture, while other great civilizations - the Maya, for one - floundered when their soils turned to dust.

Rose George

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I don't know if I believe in marriage - I believe in love.

Romeo Santos

LoveMarriageBelieveKnowI Believe

If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all.

Michelangelo

PeopleHardMasteryWonderfulSeem

If you can start and finish a book, then you're already a million miles ahead of all those people who talk about wanting to write a book.

Lisa Jewell

PeopleStartBookYouAheadTalk

When I was growing up, you didn't know there was a women's national team. Now girls grow up dreaming of playing for Canada.

Christine Sinclair

WomenTeamGrowing UpGrowYouKnow

I can't stand the club scene.

Christine Taylor

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Thoughts have no sex.

Clare Boothe Luce

ThoughtsSex

I feel like I'm put in a position where I have to engage with what people bring to my work, which is an expectation for me to talk about race because it's not normal for a black writer to be writing in the theatre.

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

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