The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
A million million worlds that move in peace;A million mighty laws that never cease;And one small ant-heap, hidden by small weeds,Rich with… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world. — 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… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . .… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
If only religion could be brought to take an interest in this earthly future, what a help it would be! ... Think… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
So when the great word "Mother!" rang once more, I saw at last its meaning and its place; Not the blind passion… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The religious need of the human mind remains alive, never more so, but it demands a teaching which can be understood. Slowly… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
No matter what the belief, if it had modestly said, 'This is our best thought, go on, think farther!' then we could… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
It cannot be too strongly asserted that the insistence on blind, unreasoning faith is due mainly to the maintenance of a subject-matter… — 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
Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world,… — 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
