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Through it [literature] we kno...

Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.

Charlotte Gilman 125 quotes

Woman' in the abstract is you...

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.

Charlotte Gilman 125 quotes

The people people have for fri...

The people people have for friends
Your common sense appall
But the people people marry
Are the queerest folk of all.

Charlotte Gilman 125 quotes

It is the same woman, I know, ...

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

Charlotte Gilman 125 quotes

When all usefulness is over, w...

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.

Charlotte Gilman 125 quotes

It is dull enough to confuse t...

It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicideЂ'plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.

Charlotte Gilman 125 quotes

Patriotism, red hot, is compat...

Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering of millions. Patriotism is largely pride, and very largely combativeness. Patriotism generally has a chip on its shoulder.

Charlotte Gilman 125 quotes

The child learns more of the v...

The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle

Charlotte Gilman 125 quotes

I was climbing up a mountain-p...

I was climbing up a mountain-path With many things to do, Important business of my own, And other people's too, When I ran against a Prejudice That quite cut off the view.

Charlotte Gilman 125 quotes

The difference is great betwee...

The difference is great between one's outside 'life,' the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's 'living.'

Charlotte Gilman 125 quotes

Love grows by service....

Love grows by service.

Charlotte Gilman 125 quotes

As for mother Eve - I wasn't t...

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.

Charlotte Gilman 125 quotes

There was a time when Patience...

There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.

Charlotte Gilman 125 quotes

It is not that women are reall...

It is not that women are really smaller-minded, weaker-minded, more timid and vacillating, but that whosoever, man or woman, lives always in a small, dark place, is always guarded, protected, directed and restrained, will become inevitably narrowed and weakened by it.

Charlotte Gilman 125 quotes

A house does not need a wife a...

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

Charlotte Gilman 125 quotes

I have preferred chloroform to...

I have preferred chloroform to cancer

Charlotte Gilman 125 quotes

Audiences are always better pl...

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

Charlotte Gilman 125 quotes

But reason has no power agains...

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

Charlotte Gilman 125 quotes

The female of the genus homo i...

The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.

Charlotte Gilman 125 quotes

Until mothers earn their livin...

Until mothers earn their livings, women will not

Charlotte Gilman 125 quotes

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