Author Being First Right Job The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Doctrine Mind To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Work Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
American New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Feeling Power History But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child. - Anna Quindlen
There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self. - Francis Bacon
The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against. - Suzanne Fields