Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes
Top 93 wise famous quotes and sayings by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.
Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly!
Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
There are the two of you - the two sexes- to love and help one another. It must be a rich and wonderful world
But only this-that people who are utterly ignorant will believe anything-which you certainly knew before.
The people people have for friends
Your common sense appall
But the people people marry
Are the queerest folk of all.
Your common sense appall
But the people people marry
Are the queerest folk of all.
Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!
(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind
But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way - it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.
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.
But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.
To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able, - to dress and entertain, and order things
While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.
It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing.
Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!
He says no one can help me out of it, that I must use my will and self-control and not let any silly fancies run away with me.
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society
more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.
To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.
Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.
A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.
In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.
If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages
not alimony.
not alimony.
John is away all day, and even some nights when his cases are serious. I am glad my case is not serious!
The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living."
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.
When we use our past merely as a guide-book, and concentrate our noble emotions on the present and future, we shall improve more rapidly.
There's heaven. There it is. What more do we mean? People, free to come together, and in beauty - for growth.
[The Yellow Wallpaper] was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.
There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.
Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.