Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes & Sayings
17 most famous Charlotte Perkins Gilman quotes and sayings. These are the first 10 quotes we have for her. She was an American writer who passed away on 17 August, 1935.
“There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.”
“To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.”
“The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.”
“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.”
“To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.”
“The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.”
“Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.”
“When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.”
“A concept is stronger than a fact.”
“Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.”
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