I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.
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 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 GilmanAs to ethics, unfortunately, we are still at sea. We never did have any popular base for what little ethics we knew, except the religious theories, and now that our faith is shaken in those theories we cannot account for ethics at all. It is no wonder we behave badly, we are literally ignorant of the laws of ethics, which is the simplest of sciences, the most necessary, the most continuously needed. The childish misconduct of our 'revolted youth' is quite equaled by that of older people, and neither young nor old seem to have any understanding of the reasons why conduct is 'good' or 'bad.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman