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Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes

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

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

Smart Better Always Joke Reasoning

When I was 13, I came back from summer camp - summer of '74 - and my mother had had an accident during surgery and was in an oxygen tent in a coma. It was so traumatic. My parents had been divorced for six or seven years at that point, and it was sort of the seminal event of my life.

Life Mother Parents My Life Back

I'm not scared of Jon Jones or Chris Weidman or whoever. I'm here to fight. That's it. It's simple.

Simple Fight Scared Here Whoever

I love water - I'm an Aquarius, but that has nothing to do with it - and I've never been away from water in any place.

Love Water Place Nothing Never Been

Bid me to love, and I will give a loving heart to thee.

Love Heart Romantic Me Loving Will

I had a philosophy, which may have been proven right, that directing isn't as hard as everyone says it is.

Philosophy Hard Right Everyone May

At home in Paris I take a milk bath two times a week, but here on the road it is more difficult. I miss them.

Home Road Week Paris Bath Milk

Christina Aguilera's 'Stripped' had a lot of good songs. It's my range, so I use it to warm up a lot.

Good Warm Up Songs Range Use

That would really be my fantasy - maybe just do three shows a year and each year in a different city, just singing for the people who really want to see it, and then just write for other people. I do love to sing, but I'm just as happy singing in the bathtub, you know?

Love Happy People City Singing Year

I've always been a fan of Westerns, but my favorite kind of Westerns mostly were Sam Peckinpah's Westerns, and they mainly took place in the West that was changing.

Place Kind Always West Changing Fan

If I could only have one type of food with me, I would bring soy sauce. The reason being that if I have soy sauce, I can flavor a lot of things.

Food Me I Can Reason Bring Sauce

Sinatra was somebody special.

Special Somebody Sinatra

Swimming is by far the best tonic I've found for my back. I'm not a good swimmer - I do the breaststroke or elementary backstroke in the slow lane - but when I took a two-week break from swimming I was surprised how much I missed it.

Good Best Swimming Slow Back Missed

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