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Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "Life is a verb, not a noun."

Life is a verb, not a noun.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose."

We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.




Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "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."

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

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




Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "Love grows by service."

Love grows by service.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time."

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it."

A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.




Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony."

If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store."

I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "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."

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

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




Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter."

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



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing."

It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans."

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



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?"

What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "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."

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 Quotes: "The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature."

The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "Concepts antedate facts."

Concepts antedate facts.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand."

The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well."

The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence."

Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future."

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "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."

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.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,"You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly!"

Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,"You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly!



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband."

A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response."

In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "What we do modifies us more than what is done to us."

What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil."

Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "A concept is stronger than a fact."

A concept is stronger than a fact.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work."

The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all."

The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive."

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight."

It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race."

One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "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!"

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!



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?"

Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup."

However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world."

A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement."

The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning."

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



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it."

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



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be."

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body."

And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed."

California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it."

The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since."

As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief."

But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.



Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: "Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether."

Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.