There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
So when the great word "Mother!" rang once more, I saw at last its meaning and its place; Not the blind passion… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“Have you no respect for the past? For what was thought and believed by your foremothers?” “Why, no,” she said. “Why should… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
If only religion could be brought to take an interest in this earthly future, what a help it would be! ... Think… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I… — 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
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