We 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 GilmanIt is not that women are really smaller-minded, weaker-minded, more timid and vacillating, but that whosoever, man or woman, lives always in a small, dark place, is always guarded, protected, directed and restrained, will become inevitably narrowed and weakened by it.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanThe mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman