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It does not do to trust people too much. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly! — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The people people have for friends
Your common sense appall
But the people people marry
Are the queerest folk of all. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able, - to dress and entertain, and order things — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant! — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I have preferred chloroform to cancer — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Love grows by service. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Life is a verb, not a noun. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women? — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There's heaven. There it is. What more do we mean? People, free to come together, and in beauty - for growth. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I always lock the door when I creep by daylight. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman