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.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanTo speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe children in this country are the one center and focus of all our thoughts. Every step of our advance is always considered in its effect on them-on the race. You see, we are MOTHERS, she repeated, as if in that she had said it all.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanTo be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman