The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanA normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.
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 GilmanThe mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanLet us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?
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