Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise c...

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, ...

They say women have no conscience about laws, don't they?" Mrs MacAvelly suggested. "Why should we?"...

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American

[The Yellow Wallpaper] was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven ...

Human life consists in mutual service. No grief pain misfortune or 'broken heart' is excuse for c...

Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain...

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more bri...

Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! ...

In all our discussions and speculations we had always unconsciously assumed that the women, whatever...

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Deat...

It's time we woke up, women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress like fools- but w...

Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a...

The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this w...

I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does no...

I really have discovered something at last. Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I...

And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had...

John dear!" said I in the gentlest voice, "the key is down by the front steps, under a plantain leaf...

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

But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to...

He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction.I have a schedule p...

Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able, - to dress and entertain, and...

John says if I don't pick up faster he shall send me to Weir Mitchell in the fall.But I don't want t...

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

John says I musn't lose my strength, and has me take cod liver oil and lots of tonics and things, to...

It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and prov...

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

Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty m...

As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evi...

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid fo...

the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed

it is only in social relations that we are human...to be human women must share in the totality of h...

Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage...

You see, they were Mothers, not in our sense of helpless involuntary fecundity, forced to fill and o...

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

John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.