“Terry made so many false starts and met so many rebuffs, that by the time he really settled down to win Alima, he was considerably wiser.  At that, it was not smooth sailing.  They broke and quarreled, over and over; he would rush off to console himself with some other fait one-the other fair one would have none of him-and he would drift back to Alima, becoming more and more devoted each time.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland

5 months ago  /  0 notes

I love you. 
So what. 
So what? So plenty! I love you, you belong to me! 
No. People don’t belong to people. 
Of course they do! 
I’ll never let ANYBODY put me in a cage. 
I don’t want to put you in a cage, I want to love you! 

It’s the same thing. 

6 months ago  /  2 notes

So she told me more and more of her beautiful land; and I told her as much, yes, more than I wanted to, about mine; and we became inseparable. Then this deeper recognition came and grew. I felt my own soul rise and lift its wings, as it were. Life got bigger. It seemed as if I understood—as I never had before—as if I could do things—as if I too could grow—if she would help me. And then it came—to both of us, all at once.

Herland, Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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