Carolyn Ives Gilman Quotes

#1. What kind of word is 'methodal'?" David asked. "A buzzword," Ashok answered, this time himself. "Methodal. Sounds like a drug." "That's what buzzwords are. Tranquilizers." "Thought suppressants, you mean.

Carolyn Ives Gilman

#2. Powerlessness is such a lure, such a poisonous lure.

Carolyn Ives Gilman

#3. I'm perfectly natural the way I am. Why can't you humans ever understand that I might not want to be afflicted with gender?

Carolyn Ives Gilman

#4. Sara had grown up in a Balavati family, which meant she had been taught to reject all articles of faith except disrespect for authority, the lodestone of her life.

Carolyn Ives Gilman

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

Carolyn Ives Gilman

#6. To die this way seems so random, so trivial. I have been robbed of meaning before being robbed of life. To die in darkness, alone -- for what purpose was I ever alive. It is as if I emerged from darkness into delusion, then sank back into darkness forever.

Carolyn Ives Gilman