Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes

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Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Best, Literature, Exciting, Digestive

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Mind, New, Still, Dominating

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, Wealth, Otherwise, Women Are

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

Human Being, Functional, Assume

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

Death, Use, About, Visualize

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Her, Economically, Homo, Dependent

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Some, Always, Amount, Epigram

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Mind, Organ, Female Mind, Female

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

Race, Friendly, Shall, Forces

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Work, Duty, Find, Predominant

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Work, Think, Civilized, Outside

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

City, New York, New, Exile

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

City, New, Unnatural, Exile

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, World, Need, Attain

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

Eternity, Begins, Going, After

A concept is stronger than a fact.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fact, Concept, Than, Stronger

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