Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes
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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 eggs, slaves and store of millet-seeds.They sleep beneath the sodAnd trust in God.
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Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,'You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly!'
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A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.
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The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
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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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New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.
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Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
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Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out. The front pattern does move-and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it!
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To-day there is hardly a woman of intelligence in all America, to say nothing of other countries, who is not definitely and actively concerned in some social interest, who does not recognize some duty besides those incident to her own blood relationship.
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The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
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This wallpaper has a kind of sub-pattern in a different shade, a particularly irritating one, for you can only see it in certain lights, and not clearly then.
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You think you have mastered it the wallpaper pattern, but just as you get well under way in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you.
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The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
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To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
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When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.
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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 of neurasthenia since reading The Yellow Wallpaper. It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.
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The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty.... From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
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Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.
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But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.
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Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
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I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!
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There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
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The color is repellent, almost revolting: a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.
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Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.