The 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 GilmanAudiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe female of genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanNo matter what the belief, if it had modestly said, 'This is our best thought, go on, think farther!' then we could have smoothly outgrown our early errors and long since have developed a religion such as would have kept pace with an advancing world. But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind
Charlotte Perkins Gilman