The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement. — 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
The religious need of the human mind remains alive, never more so, but it demands a teaching which can be understood. Slowly… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
In our steady insistence on proclaiming sex-distinction we have grown to consider most human attributes as masculine attributes, for the simple reason… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards. — 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
We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
all social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
We all need one another; much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
To work is not only a right, it is a duty. To work to the full capacity of one's powers is necessary… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more. — 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
When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights… — 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
