New York… that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes
New York – that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.
We have been so taken up with the phenomena of masculinity and femininity, that our common humanity has largely escaped notice. We know we are human, naturally, and are very proud of it; but we do not consider in what our humanness consists… It is “manly” to do this; it is “womanly” to do that; […]
The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses. The labor of horses enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could. The horse is an economic factor in society. But […]
John is a physician, and perhaps – (I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind) – perhaps that is one reason I do not get well faster. You see he does not believe I am sick! And what can one […]
For each man to have one whole woman to cook for and wait upon him is a poor education for democracy. The boy with a servile mother, the man with a servile wife, cannot reach the sense of equal rights we need to-day. Too constant consideration of the master’s tastes makes the master selfish… We […]
The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent.
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should lift the world forward. That is what they are for.
