Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress like fools - but who’s to blame for that? We invent all those idiotic hats of theirs, and design their crazy fashions, and what’s more, if a woman is courageous enough to wear common-sense clothes - and shoes - which of us wants to dance with her?

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3 1860 – August 17 1935) was a prominent American sociologist novelist writer of short stories poetry and nonfiction and a lecturer for social reform. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story The Yellow Wallpaper which Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women and Charlotte Perkins Gilman served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle.