Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

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.

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.

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

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

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

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.