Powerful Charlotte Perkins Gilman for Daily Growth
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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