Susan Jane Gilman famous quotes

Weddings are giant Rorschach tests onto which everyone around you projects their fears, fantasies, and expectations - many of which they've been cultivating since the day you were born.
-- Susan Jane Gilman

#Wedding #Expectations #Tests

Every woman should see herself looking uniquely breathtaking, in something tailored to celebrate her body, so that she is better able to appreciate her own beauty and better equipped to withstand the ideals of our narrow-waisted, narrow- minded culture.
-- Susan Jane Gilman

#Appreciate #Culture #Body

Good girls don't hurt other people's feelings. Good girls are not overly aggressive, competitive, or boastful. Good girls please others. But what good girls are good for is another question.
-- Susan Jane Gilman

#Girl #Hurt #People

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

#Girl #Order #Guy

Approximately seventy percent of the female population is on a diet at any given time. More women diet than vote.
-- Susan Jane Gilman

#Population #Female #Vote

I’m aware that there is a bigger, far more complicated world out there than I’d ever realized, and just like the students at Beijing University, I’ve glimpsed it only fleetingly, peripherally. I’ve sensed the vast expanse of my own ignorance now. I feel antsy and constricted and a deep, almost sexual yearning for velocity, for some sort of raw, transcendent experience that I cannot even begin to articulate.
-- Susan Jane Gilman

#Ignorance #World #Velocity

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

#Men #Doe #Boxes

I’m aware that there is a bigger, far more complicated world out there than I’d ever realized, and just like the students at Beijing University, I’ve glimpsed it only fleetingly, peripherally. I’ve sensed the vast expanse of my own ignorance now. I feel antsy and constricted and a deep, almost sexual yearning for velocity, for some sort of raw, transcendent experience that I cannot even begin to articulate.
-- Susan Jane Gilman

#Ignorance #Complicated World #Velocity

The more time you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited.

We intend to conduct our business in a way that not only meets but exceeds the expectations of our customers, business partners, shareholders, and creditors, as well as the communities in which we operate and society at large.

It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.

Future orientation is combined with a notion and expectation of progress, and nothing is impossible.

If people know we expect good things from them, they will in most cases go to great lengths to live up to our expectations.

Life is not a multiple choice test, it's an open-book essay exam.

I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.

You know, being a test pilot isn't always the healthiest business in the world.

Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.