“I never saw so much expression in an inanimate thing before, and we all know how much expression they have! I used… — 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
“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
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
We are pushed forward by the social forces, reluctant and stumbling, our faces over our shoulders, clutching at every relic of the… — 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
The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“The most serious injury is done in childhood. Our cruel waste of the nerve force of children is only more pathetic than… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“I learned a lot, when I was a child, from novels and stories, even fairytales have some point to them--the good ones.… — 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
I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The children in this country are the one center and focus of all our thoughts. Every step of our advance is always… — 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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. — 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 to retard… — 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
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 Image
The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
