Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.

We all need one another; much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred, private "home" of his own, so all human creatures need a place to be together in, from the two who can show each other their souls uninterruptedly, to the largest throng that can throb and stir in unison.

Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.

The children in this country are the one center and focus of all our thoughts. Every step of our advance is always considered in its effect on them-on the race. You see, we are MOTHERS, she repeated, as if in that she had said it all.

Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

Until mothers earn their livings, women will not

It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.

As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.

And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.

It is the duty of youth to bring fresh new powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should life the world forward. That is what they are for.

In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.