The 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.


Ch. 13. - Women and Economics (1898)

Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes

The 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...

The 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...

The 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...

The 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...