Feminism Quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

18 Feminism quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 18 statements reveal a forward‑thinking critique of domestic expectations, marrying literary craft with social reform. The collection feels like a compact manifesto from a trailblazing writer.

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A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.

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In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.

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There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.

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“the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed”

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The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least…

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“John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.”

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“Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.”

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This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . .…

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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way…

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In our steady insistence on proclaiming sex-distinction we have grown to consider most human attributes as masculine attributes, for the simple reason…

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“I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I…

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To-day there is hardly a woman of intelligence in all America ... who is not definitely and actively concerned in some social…

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It is not that women are really smaller-minded, weaker-minded, more timid and vacillating, but that whosoever, man or woman, lives always in…

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“it is only in social relations that we are human...to be human women must share in the totality of humanity's common life.…

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“Will you excuse us all,” [Jeff] said, “if we admit that we find it hard to believe? There is no such-possibility-in the…

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“A lifted world lifts women up," the Socalist explained. You cannot lift the world at all While half of it is kept…

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“This led me very promptly to the conviction that those “feminine charms” we are so fond of are not feminine at all,…

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“I really have discovered something at last. Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out.…

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“They were inconveniently reasonable, these women.”

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Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and science that…

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To-day there is hardly a woman of intelligence in all America ... who is not definitely and actively concerned in some social interest, who…

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“Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.”

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“I never saw so much expression in an inanimate thing before, and we all know how much expression they have! I used to lie…

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In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

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The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard…

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Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.

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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…

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The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.

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The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.

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Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

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No matter what the belief, if it had modestly said, 'This is our best thought, go on, think farther!' then we could have smoothly…

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A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.

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The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.

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