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Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “We thought of them as “Women,” and therefore timid; but it was two thousand years since they had had anything to be afraid of, and certainly more than one thousand since they had outgrown the feeling.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “Maleness means war.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “It was moonlight. The moon shines in all around just as the sun does.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “There’s heaven. There it is. What more do we mean? People, free to come together, and in beauty – for growth.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “In exact proportion as women grow independent, educated, wise and free, do they become less submissive to men-made fashions.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “A concept is stronger than a fact.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “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 Quote: “A man hits me – I hit the man a little harder – then he won’t do it again.′ Unfortunately he did do it again – a little harder still. The effort to hit harder carried on the action and reaction till society, hitting hardest of all, set up a system of legal punishment, of unlimited severity. It imprisoned, it mutilated, it tortured, it killed; it destroyed whole families, and razed contumelious cities to the ground.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “If a man loves a girl who is in the first place young and inexperienced; who in the second place is educated with a background of caveman tradition, a middle-ground of poetry and romance, and a foreground of unspoken hope and interest all centering upon the one Event; and who has, furthermore, absolutely no other hope or interest worthy of the name – why, it is a comparatively easy manner to sweep her off her feet with a dashing attack.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “In great cities where people of ability abound, there is always a feverish urge to keep ahead, to set the pace, to adopt each new fashion in thought and theory as well as in dress – or undress.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “I start, we’ll say, at the bottom, down in the corner over there where it has not been touched, and I determine for the thousandth time that I will follow that pointless pattern to some sort of a conclusion.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “Woman” in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “This led me very promptly to the conviction that those “feminine charms” we are so fond of are not feminine at all, but mere reflected masculinity – developed to please us because they had to please us, and in no way essential to the real fulfillment of their great process.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it; why should a woman?”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “Crime does not decrease in proportion to the severest punishment.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “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 Quote: “It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “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.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages – not alimony.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “Grateful return for happiness conferred is not the method of exchange in a partnership. The comfort a man takes with his wife is not in the nature of a business partnership, nor are her frugality and industry.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “She is held from within by every hardened layer of untouched instinct which has accumulated through the centuries; she is opposed from without by such mountain ranges of prejudice as would be insurmountable if prejudice were made of anything real.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “It is the old masculine spirit of government as authority which is so slow in adapting itself to the democratic idea of government as service. That it should be a representative government they grasp, but representative of what? of the common will, they say; the will of the majority; – never thinking that it is the common good, the common welfare, that government should represent.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “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 Quote: “There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “There are the two of you – the two sexes- to love and help one another. It must be a rich and wonderful world.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “I see that I have not remarked that these women had pockets in surprising number and variety. They were in all their garments, and the middle one in particular was shingled with them.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “Nowhere else in the whole range of life on earth, is this degradation found – the female capering and prancing before the male. It is absolutely and essentially his function, not hers.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “Our laws as we support them now are slow, wasteful, cumbrous systems, which require a special caste to interpret and another to enforce; wherein the average citizen knows nothing of the law, and cares only to evade it when he can, obey it when he must.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “Democracy calls for the understanding, recognition, and universal practise of social laws, – laws which are “natural,” like those of physics and chemistry; but your religion – and your education, too – taught Authority – not real law.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “You see, they were Mothers, not in our sense of helpless involuntary fecundity, forced to fill and overfill the land, every land, and then see their children suffer, sin, and die, fighting horribly with one another; but in the sense of Conscious Makers of People.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “I don’t know why I should write this. I don’t want to. I don’t feel able. And I know John would think it absurd. But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way – it is such a relief.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “I don’t like to look out of the windows even – there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast. I wonder if they all come out of that wallpaper, as I did?”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “The world’s last prison will be simply a hospital for moral incurables.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “I’ve got out at last,” said I, “in spite of you and Jane. And I’ve pulled off most of the paper, so you can’t put me back!”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “The force of inertia acts in the domain of psychics as well as physics; any idea pushed into the popular mind with considerable force will keep on going until some opposing force – or the slow resistance of friction – stops it at last.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “Why not? Why not be your own man for once in your life – do what you want to – not what other people want you to?”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quote: “You see he does not believe I am sick!”
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