Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#civilized #developed #feel #home #humanly

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#dominating #follow #human #human mind #mind

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. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#being #briefly #duty #find #first

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. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#certainly #could #economic #enables #factors

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

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#find #predominant #work

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. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#better world #birth #calm #easy #evolution

The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#economically #female #food #food supply #genus

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#amount #any #audiences #better #epigram

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

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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A concept is stronger than a fact. ↗

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#fact #stronger #than