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People Quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

10 People quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s prose often interrogates the expectations placed on individuals. Here ten of her observations illuminate the tensions between personal identity and societal pressure.

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“It does not do to trust people too much.”

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The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

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There's heaven. There it is. What more do we mean? People, free to come together, and in beauty - for growth.

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I was climbing up a mountain-path With many things to do, Important business of my own, And other people's too, When I…

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In great cities where people of ability abound, there is always a feverish urge to keep ahead, to set the pace, to…

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It is the duty of youth to bring fresh new powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should…

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Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment…

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As to ethics, unfortunately, we are still at sea. We never did have any popular base for what little ethics we knew,…

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The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God,…

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Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I…

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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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