The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanNever in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanGrateful return for happiness conferred is not the method of exchange in a partnership. The comfort a man takes with his wife is not in the nature of a business partnership, nor are her frugality and industry.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanThis 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 Gilman