The top 10 most inspiring quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
- 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.
- 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.
- To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
- 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.
- Eternity is not something that begins after you’re dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
- 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.
- There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
- Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935) was a prominent American humanist, novelist, and social reformer. Best known for her short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” (1892), Gilman used her writing to highlight the inequities faced by women and advocate for social change.
Born in Hartford, Connecticut, she endured a difficult childhood marked by her father’s abandonment. Gilman’s works often explored themes of feminism, economic independence for women, and social reform.
Her landmark book, “Women and Economics” (1898), argued for women’s financial independence and critiqued the traditional domestic role of women. Gilman believed that women’s liberation required societal changes that included shared child-rearing responsibilities and cooperative living arrangements.
She was a leading figure in the American feminist movement and influenced future generations of feminists and social thinkers. Gilman’s life and work continue to be studied for their profound impact on feminist literature and social theory.
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