(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living." — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“I never saw a worse paper in my life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin.” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“it is only in social relations that we are human...to be human women must share in the totality of humanity's common life.… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
If we once admit that our life is here for the purpose of race-improvement, then we question any religion which does not… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and science that… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share
To-day there is hardly a woman of intelligence in all America ... who is not definitely and actively concerned in some social interest, who… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share
“Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share
“I never saw so much expression in an inanimate thing before, and we all know how much expression they have! I used to lie… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share
The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share
Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share
Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share
The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share
The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share
No matter what the belief, if it had modestly said, 'This is our best thought, go on, think farther!' then we could have smoothly… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share
The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share
