“And, as I traveled farther and farther, exploring the rich, sweet soul of her, my sense of pleasant friendship became but a… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“I was madly in love with not so much what was there as with what I supposed to be there.” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“I want to marry you, Malda - because I love you - because you are young and strong and beautiful - because… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The home is the center and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of 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
