CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN

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

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.

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

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.

A concept is stronger than a fact.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could.

National crimes demand international law, to restrain, prohibit, punish, best of all, prevent.

To bear and rear the majestic race to which they can never fully belong! To live vicariously forever, through their sons, the daughters being just another vicarious link! What a supreme and magnificent martyrdom!

In no other animal species is the sex-relation for sale. We approve the economic dependence of women upon the sex-relation in marriage and condemn it unsparingly out of marriage.

It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.

The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard progress.We fill the world with the children of 20th century A.D. fathers and 20th century B.C. mothers.

There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.

In the field of economics we maintain to this day some of the most primitive ideas, some of the most radically false ideas, some of the most absurd ideas a brain can hold. ... but all this give no uneasiness to the average brain. That long-suffering organ has been trained for more thousands of years than history can uncover to hold in unquestioning patience great blocks of irrelevant idiocy and large active lies.