“it is only in social relations that we are human...to be human women must share in the totality of humanity's common life. Women, forced to lead restricted lives, retard all human progress. Growth of organism, the individual or social body… — 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
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
“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
“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
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share
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
Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share
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
The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share
The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share
No matter what the belief, if it had modestly said, 'This is our best thought, go on, think farther!' then we could have smoothly… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share
The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share
