“I really have discovered something at last. Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out. The front pattern does move - and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it! Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over. Then in the very ' bright spots she keeps still, and in the very shady spots she just takes hold of the bars and shakes them hard. And she is all the time trying to climb through. But nobody could climb through that pattern - it strangles so:...”
“I really have discovered something at last. Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out. The front pattern does move - and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it! Sometimes I think there are a great many women behind, and sometimes only one, and she crawls around fast, and her crawling shakes it all over. Then in the very ' bright spots she keeps still, and in the very shady spots she just takes hold of the bars and shakes them hard. And she is all the time trying to climb through. But nobody could climb through that pattern - it strangles so:...”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman“Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress like fools - but who’s to blame for that? We invent all those idiotic hats of theirs, and design their crazy fashions, and what’s more, if a woman is courageous enough to wear common-sense clothes - and shoes - which of us wants to dance with her?”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories“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“Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman“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“The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman“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“Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power The world must follow you!”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman“New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman“Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.”
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