This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . . . and the world waits while she powders her nose.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanWe have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe 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