Susan Jane Gilman Quotes

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Weddings are giant Rorschach tests onto which everyone around you projects their fears, fantasies, and expectations - many of which they've been cultivating since the day you were born.

Susan Jane Gilman
Any honest married person will admit this: Marriage can be joyous, but it's also an out-and-out wrestling match between Romance and Disappointment, Expectation and Compromise.

Susan Jane Gilman
A girl doesn't need a guy in her life in order to act like a complete idiot. Certainly I, at least, never have.

Susan Jane Gilman
Approximately seventy percent of the female population is on a diet at any given time. More women diet than vote.

Susan Jane Gilman
Every woman should see herself looking uniquely breathtaking, in something tailored to celebrate her body, so that she is better able to appreciate her own beauty and better equipped to withstand the ideals of our narrow-waisted, narrow- minded culture.

Susan Jane Gilman
If we're gay, of course, marriage has been cordoned off with razor wire by sanctimonious morons — so that if we find somebody we want to live with and care for until death do us part, things are complicated right from the start.

Susan Jane Gilman
Good girls don't hurt other people's feelings. Good girls are not overly aggressive, competitive, or boastful. Good girls please others. But what good girls are good for is another question.

Susan Jane Gilman
If we think saying no is going to hurt a guy's feelings, imagine what a restraining order will do.

Susan Jane Gilman