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.

Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and 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.

The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.

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

Until mothers earn their livings, women will not

The peculiarity of all death-based religions is that their subject-matter is entirely outside of facts. Men could think and think, talk and argue, advance, deny, assert, and controversy, and write innumerable books, without being hampered at any time by any fact.

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

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

I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.

Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.

At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth.