Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Age: 75 †
Born: 1860
Born: July 3
Died: 1935
Died: August 17
Artist
Economist
Editor
Feminist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Sociologist
Suffragette
Writer
Hartford
Connecticut
Charlotte Perkins Stetson
Charlotte Perkins
Charlotte P. Gilman
Trouble
Speak
Find
Traceable
Heart
Broadly
Life
Purse
Purses
Mainly
Troubles
More quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading The Yellow Wallpaper.It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard progress.We fill the world with the children of 20th century A.D. fathers and 20th century B.C. mothers.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A concept is stronger than a fact.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The children in this country are the one center and focus of all our thoughts. Every step of our advance is always considered in its effect on them-on the race. You see, we are MOTHERS, she repeated, as if in that she had said it all.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
To-day there is hardly a woman of intelligence in all America ... who is not definitely and actively concerned in some social interest, who does not recognize some duty besides those incident to her own blood relationship.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly!
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I have preferred chloroform to cancer
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
