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Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.

Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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  2. The chains that break you, are the chains that make you. And the chains that make you, are the chains you break. – Anthony Liccione
  3. And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  4. It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  5. 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. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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  8. [The Yellow Wallpaper] was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  9. John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  10. Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time! – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  11. But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way -” it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  12. Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  13. Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able, – to dress and entertain, and order things – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  14. But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  15. It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  16. It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  17. If you place belief on a pedestal, it will become your prison. – Ken son
  18. Time is running faster than watch.Life is running faster than Time.We are running faster than Life.In this race, relationships are being left behind – Pankaj Gupta
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  20. Stars crown the world, she said, but the lights in your eyes, those are stars, too. They make up your crown, he said. – Jeannine Atkins
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  22. If you want to miss your crown, follow the crowd. If you want to wear the crown, go alone and be yourself. – Israelmore Ayivor
  23. Chains of gold are still chains. – Robert Thier
  24. A man’s spirit is free, but his pride binds him with chains of suffocation in a prison of his own insecurities – Jeremy Aldana
  25. Our hearts are all prison walls when we hold people captive with chains of unforgiveness. – Ikechukwu Izuakor
  26. Reason is the hero who breaks the chains of our prejudice, saving us from the prison of our comfortable acquiescence in the way of the world. – Montague Brown
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  28. Get close enough to someone and his or her halo slips–not because they’re bad, but because they’re mortal. – Patricia Raybon
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  32. Be still:There is no longer any need of comment.It was a lucky windThat blew away his halo with his cares,A lucky sea that drowned his reputation. – Thomas Merton
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  36. Even sentenced to twenty-five years in prison Ted didn’t get what he deserved. Maybe his prison mates would give it to him. – Suzie Ivy
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  39. Don’t make the mistake of looking down on your partner. You’re only on that pedestal because they put you up there. – Kamand Kojouri
  40. A session of boasting won’t attract any real friends.  It will set you up on a pedestal, however, making you a clearer target. – Richelle E Goodrich

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