"My dream had become my reality: my old life was a discarded husk."

“She always says she dislikes the abnormal, it is so obvious. She says the normal is so much more simply complicated and interesting.”

“To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.”

“I try to take people one at a time, with all the contradictions and compromises that most of us live with.”

“What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.”

Source : Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.35, e-artnow

“We shot that in Morocco, and got out of the country at the beginning of July - and two months later came the attack on Twin Towers. The movie was then released in December, so that kind of atmosphere is not something that was unfamiliar to me.”

“The assumption of Jesus' program for his people on earth was that they would live their lives as his students and co-laborers.”

“I'll turn on the TV or look at a magazine, and it's like, 'Who is this person?' And you find out they are from '16 and Pregnant,' and I'm like, 'Really? They're celebrities now?' You read about them on the news having fights and breakups, and I think, 'Well, of course.”

“My advice to female directors is not to wait until you feel like your ideas have been pre-certified or until you think you've gotten some approval for them. Then it's too late! Follow your gut. That's hard to do, but the only way to be original.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com