Author History Power Feeling feminist But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter. - 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
Men Women 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. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Audiences Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Happiness World To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Now Time Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now. - 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
When I went off to the army when I was 17 years old, I believed in America and the rights of freedom. But today I believe my government is lying to the American people and that my president, George Bush, is a criminal. - Jack Herer