In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanUntil we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanA man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it; why should a woman?
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 GilmanWe are pushed forward by the social forces, reluctant and stumbling, our faces over our shoulders, clutching at every relic of the past as we are forced along; still adoring whatever is behind us. We insist upon worshipping 'the God of our fathers.' Why not the God of our children? Does eternity only stretch one way?
Charlotte Perkins Gilman