Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes
"Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Related: Work, Home)
"To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Related: Happiness, World)
"There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Related: Sex, Mind)
"The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Related: Work, Duty)
"The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Related: Men, Women, Society, Wealth, Horses, Labor)
"The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Related: Society, Being, Duty, First, Job, Right)
"The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Related: Food)
"New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Related: American)
"In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Related: Americans)
"Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Related: Time, Eternity, Now)
"But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Related: History, Power, Feeling, Light, Reason)
"Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Related: Audiences)
"A concept is stronger than a fact."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Related: Fact)
"Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Related: Literature)
"To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Related: Doctrine, Mind, Old, Propaganda, Weakness)
"When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution."
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Related: Mother, Evolution, Race, Right, World)