Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Mind, Human, Old

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Happiness, Another, While

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Women, Men, Society

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Smart, Joke, Reasoning

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.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Society, Job, Human

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Sex, Mind, Brain

A concept is stronger than a fact.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fact, Stronger, Concept

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Power, History, Feeling

Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Time, After, Dead

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Best, After, Exciting

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Everyone, City, York

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

American, City, York

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Work, Home, Live

The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Food, Her, Female

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Work, Find, Duty

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.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Mother, Friendly, Free

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.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Life, Death, Evil

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 3, 1860

Died: August 17, 1935

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