Quotes by : Carolyn Ives Gilman

To die this way seems so random, so trivial. I have been robbed of meaning before being robbed of life.....

I may not know what my heart truly holds, but who does? I think we're all mysteries, even to ourselves.....

I knew I was really there, because I was the thing his arms encircled, the thing his love defined.

Powerlessness is such a lure, such a poisonous lure.

I'm perfectly natural the way I am. Why can't you humans ever understand that I might not want to be....