Quotes from Charlotte Perkins Gilman


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

    Brain | Speak | Sex


    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.

    Life | Death | Evil


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

    Work | Duty


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

    City | Exile | None


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

    City | Exile | None


    Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

    Best | Literature | Exciting


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

    Time | Dead | Eternity


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

    History | Power | Light


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

    Happiness | Secure | Attain


    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.

    Society | Duty | Assume


    A concept is stronger than a fact.

    Stronger | Concept


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

    Work | Home | Outside


    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.

    Mother | Calm | Free


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

    Food | Male | Supply


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

    Smart | Pleased | Joke


    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.

    Women | Society | Men


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

    Weakness | Propaganda | Follow


       

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