Only as we live, think, feel, and work o... by Charlotte Perkins Gilman | We Heart Quotes

Author Work feminist Women's Rights sociologist

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Other quotes by 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

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

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

Literature

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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