If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“Woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it; why should a woman? — 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… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century. — 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
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
It is the duty of youth to bring fresh new powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The original necessity for the ceaseless presence of the woman to maintain that altar fire - and it was an altar fire… — 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
