The labor of women in the house, certain... by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Author Women Men feminist Women's Rights

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

Other quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Sex Mind

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

- 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

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

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

American

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Americans

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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