It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicideโplunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe peculiarity of all death-based religions is that their subject-matter is entirely outside of facts. Men could think and think, talk and argue, advance, deny, assert, and controversy, and write innumerable books, without being hampered at any time by any fact.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanIts time we woke up,โ pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. โWomen are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress like fools - but whoโs to blame for that? We invent all those idiotic hats of theirs, and design their crazy fashions, and whatโs more, if a woman is courageous enough to wear common-sense clothes - and shoes - which of us wants to dance with her?
Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God, gaveus relgions which coule not possible maintained without belief and obedience: ... we find them most permanent and changeless among people who make the least effort to swquare their beliefs with the laws of life.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman