The one predominant duty is to find one'... by Charlotte Perkins Gilman | We Heart Quotes

Author Work Duty feminist Women's Rights

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Other quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Duty Society Job Right Being

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

American

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fact

A concept is stronger than a fact.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Mother Right World

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Food

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

- 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

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