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
I have preferred chloroform to cancer
There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.
The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.
While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.
Until mothers earn their livings, women will not
Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.
To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.
Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.
I was climbing up a mountain-path With many things to do, Important business of my own, And other people's too, When I ran against a Prejudice That quite cut off the view.
If only religion could be brought to take an interest in this earthly future, what a help it would be! ... Think of the appeal to the less spiritual of us, to those who never did get enthusiastic about eternity, or care so tenderly about their own souls, yet who could rise to the thought of improving this world for the children they love, and their children after them.
Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering of millions. Patriotism is largely pride, and very largely combativeness. Patriotism generally has a chip on its shoulder.
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.
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!