List of Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Total Quotes 123
If fifty men did all the work, / and gave the price to five, / and let those five make all the rules - / you'd say the fifty men were fools, / unfit to be alive.
Work Men Alive
Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and science that we have made it; and while every woman prepares food for her own family, cooking can never rise beyond the level of the amateur's work.
Art Men House
Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.
Insane Looks Monkeys
There's heaven. there it is. what more do we mean? people, free to come together, and in beauty - for growth.
Mean People Heaven
We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.
Race Desire Constitution
We are pushed forward by the social forces, reluctant and stumbling, our faces over our shoulders, clutching at every relic of the past as we are forced along; still adoring whatever is behind us. we insist upon worshipping 'the god of our fathers.' why not the god of our children? does eternity only stretch one way?
Change Children Father
Its time we woke up,” pursued gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “women are pretty much people, seems to me. i know they dress like fools - but who’s to blame for that? we invent all those idiotic hats of theirs, and design their crazy fashions, and what’s more, if a woman is courageous enough to wear common-sense clothes - and shoes - which of us wants to dance with her?
Fashion Crazy Shoes
Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.
Literature Exciting Supper
All social relations exist and grow in the human mind. that one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely on their state of mind. they believe that he does; let them change their minds, and he does not.
Believe Men Perception
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 him every time!
Wall Men Path
So when the great word "mother!" rang once more, i saw at last its meaning and its place; not the blind passion of the brooding past, but mother -- the world's mother -- come at last, to love as she had never loved before -- to feed and guard and teach the human race.
Inspirational Mother Passion
There was a time when patience ceased to be a virtue. it was long ago.
Patience Long Ago Long
  • Born: July 3, 1860
  • Died: August 17, 1935
  • Occupation: Novelist
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