The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanOne religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanThere should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe original necessity for the ceaseless presence of the woman to maintain that altar fire - and it was an altar fire in very truth at one period - has passed with the means of prompt ignition; the matchbox has freed the housewife from that incessant service, but the feeling that women should stay at home is with us yet.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman