Quotes of Charlotte Perkins Gilman - somelinesforyou

“ Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition to life, not an evil. ”

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“ 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

“ I ran against a Prejudice That quite cut off the view. ”

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“ 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

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“ The original necessity for the ceaseless presence of the woman to maintain the altar fire — and it was an altar fire in very truth at one period — has passed with the means of prompt ignition; the matchbox has freed the housewife from that incessant service, but the feeling that women should stay at home is with us yet. ”

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“ 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

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“ It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. 'They all eat one another!' he cried, and called it evil. This process I examined, changed the verb, said, 'They all feed one another,' and called it good. ”

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“ Theirs was a civilization in which the initial difficulties had long since been overcome. The untroubled peace, the unmeasured plenty, the steady health, the large good will and smooth management which ordered everything, left nothing to overcome. It was like a pleasant family in an old established perfectly-run country place. ”

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“ It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. 'They all eat one another!' he cried, and called it evil. This process I examined, changed the verb, said, 'They all feed one another,' and called it good. ”

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“ There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver. ”

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“ It is the duty of youth to bring fresh new powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should lift the world forward. That is what they are for. ”

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“ There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver. ”

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“ There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver. ”

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“ The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society — more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. ”

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“ To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more. ”

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“ There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver. ”

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“ There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver. ”

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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