California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanThis is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . . . and the world waits while she powders her nose.
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 soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God, gaveus relgions which coule not possible maintained without belief and obedience: ... we find them most permanent and changeless among people who make the least effort to swquare their beliefs with the laws of life.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman