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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