"It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing."

-- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#Names Quotes #Nuisance Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“It is in rare and scattered instants that beauty smiles even on her adorers, who are reduced for habitual comfort to remembering her past favours.”
“To think of criticism as a conversation is to think of it as a social act, something that puts you in touch with other people who may think the way you do.”
“Self-actualizing people must be what they can be.”
“It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish.”
“Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood.”
“Then all at once in late August's heat, tall leafless stalks crowned with iridescent pink and purple blossoms burst from the purgatory in the earth. This arcane act of nature, though perceived by us as ordinary, is a manifestation of Maya's phantom play, the great immensity expressed in every way. My garden is the universe. I am the universe. I am my garden. All things are the same.”
“What of us lies in the hearts of others is our truest and deepest self.”
“There's no such thing as an independent person.”

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