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
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.
The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.
The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.
Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!
Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.
We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.
Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world, Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power, The world must follow you!
The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.
A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it; why should a woman?