The acts and facts of today continually diverge from the concepts of yesterday.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it; why should a woman?
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body,
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
New York... that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I'm getting really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. Perhaps because of the wallpaper.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
