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
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  2. My heart only ever had one thought, one want. One need. Despite all, in spite of all... All my heart has ever wanted is you. - Stephanie Laurens

  3. If you have the woman you love, what more do you need? Well, besides an alibi for the time of her husband’s murder.
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  4. Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you. - Erich Fromm

  5. She wanted to lose herself in him. To tie his arms around her like a tourniquet. If she showed him how much she needed him, he'd run away. - Rainbow Rowell

More Quotes By Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  1. Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition to life, not an evil.

  2. As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.

  3. Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.

  4. There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

  5. Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.

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