“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
“the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“I really have discovered something at last. Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out. The front pattern does move - and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it! Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share
“I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“Will you excuse us all,” [Jeff] said, “if we admit that we find it hard to believe? There is no such-possibility-in the… — 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
“This led me very promptly to the conviction that those “feminine charms” we are so fond of are not feminine at all,… — 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
![“Will you excuse us all,” [Jeff] said, “if we admit that we find it hard to believe? There is no such-possibility-in the rest of the world.” Have you no kind of life where [asexual reproduction] is possible?” asked Zava. “Why, yes-some low forms, of course.” “How low-or how high, rather?” quote by Charlotte Perkins Gilman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ece/charlotte-perkins-gilman-2420_feminism_will-you-excuse-us-all-jeff-said-if-we-a_2382079.jpg)
