New York – that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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
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
The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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
