Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilmanwas a prominent American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women, and she served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story "The Yellow Wallpaper" which she wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth3 July 1860
CountryUnited States of America
The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.
There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.
I have preferred chloroform to cancer
The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
It is not that women are really smaller-minded, weaker-minded, more timid and vacillating, but that whosoever, man or woman, lives always in a small, dark place, is always guarded, protected, directed and restrained, will become inevitably narrowed and weakened by it.
The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
Until mothers earn their livings, women will not
Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
It is not for nothing that a man's best friends sigh when he marries, especially if he is a man of genius.
No matter what the belief, if it had modestly said, 'This is our best thought, go on, think farther!' then we could have smoothly outgrown our early errors and long since have developed a religion such as would have kept pace with an advancing world. But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.
Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man.
Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.