Top 5 Carolyn Ives Gilman Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “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

2. “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

3. “I didn’t know it then, but I could never turn back once I had learned this. To see something you must cease to be it.”

— Carolyn Ives Gilman

4. “We’re all inadequate,” David answered. “Just think: the light from the outside world is mapped onto the retina, then further mapped onto the visual cortex, then broken apart and analyzed in other areas of the brain. At every step there’s a loss of information. In the end, what we are aware of is not the outside world per se, but the image of the world projected onto our brains. Plato was anatomically right; we do see shadows on a wall.”

— Carolyn Ives Gilman

5. “Powerlessness is such a lure, such a poisonous lure.”

— Carolyn Ives Gilman

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