The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.
Charlotte Perkins GilmanRead
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.
Interpretation
Human beings require both solitude and companionship for their well-being.
This quote by Charlotte Perkins Gilman emphasizes the dual necessity of solitude and community in human life. It suggests that while individuals need personal spaces for introspection and rejuvenation, they equally require shared spaces for connection and emotional exchange, highlighting the balance between individuality and togetherness in fostering a fulfilling life.
In practice
In a speech about mental health, one could use this quote to highlight the importance of social connections.
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.
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.
The first time you marry for love, the second for money, and the third for companionship.
You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word and a blow. But the thing that rankles is hurt vanity. That sticks. Humiliation. And we've all got a sore spot we don't like to have touched.
If a man makes me keep my distance, the comfort is, he keeps his at the same time.
The real trouble about the duty of forgiveness is that you do it with all your might on Monday and then find on Wednesday that it hasn't stayed put and all has to be done over again.
It was sad, the imbalance of it all. Why do kids assume so much from one parent and hold the other to a lower, looser standard?
I've always had this feeling wherever I go. Of not feeling fully part of things, not fully accepted, not fully inside of something.
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