Literature Know Quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“They were inconveniently reasonable, these women.”

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

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

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

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“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

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

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

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

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

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

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman