“ You see, they were Mothers, not in our sense of helpless involuntary fecundity, forced to fill and overfill the land, every land, and then see their children suffer, sin, and die, fighting horribly wi… Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“ The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“ 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
“ [The Yellow Wallpaper] was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“ And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“ 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
“ John says I musn't lose my strength, and has me take cod liver oil and lots of tonics and things, to say nothing of ale and wine and rare meat.Dear John! He loves me very dearly, and hates to have me… Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“ Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power The world must f… Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“ But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“ Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“ 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
“ It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“ 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
“ Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“ John dear! said I in the gentlest voice, the key is down by the front steps, under a plantain leaf!That silenced him for a few moments.Then he said—very quietly indeed, Open the door, my darling!I can… Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“ Human life consists in mutual service. No grief pain misfortune or 'broken heart' is excuse for cutting off one's life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over when one… Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“ New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“ Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition to life, not an evil. Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“ John says if I don't pick up faster he shall send me to Weir Mitchell in the fall.But I don't want to go there at all. I had a friend who was in his hands once, and she says he is just like John and m… Charlotte Perkins Gilman
