21 quotes
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
Women and Economics (1898)
There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
Women and Economics (1898)
Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.
Women and Economics (1898)
A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.
His Religion and Hers (1923)
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.
Women and Economics (1898)
The latest and highest form of Feminism has great promise for the world. It postulates womanhood free, strong, clean and conscious of its power and duty.
Feminism (1908)
Said I, in scorn all burning hot,
In rage and anger high,
"You ignominious idiot,
Those wings are made to fly!"
In this Our World : Poems (1898)
There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will.
The Yellow Wallpaper (1891)
The color is repellent, almost revolting: a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.
The Yellow Wallpaper (1891)
I do not want to be a fly,
I want to be a worm!
In this Our World : Poems (1898)
I'm getting really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. Perhaps because of the wallpaper.
The Yellow Wallpaper (1891)
To-day there is hardly a woman of intelligence in all America, to say nothing of other countries, 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.
Women and Economics (1898)
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!
The Yellow Wallpaper (1891)
This wallpaper has a kind of sub-pattern in a different shade, a particularly irritating one, for you can only see it in certain lights, and not clearly then.
The Yellow Wallpaper (1891)
A million million worlds that move in peace;
A million mighty laws that never cease;
And one small ant-heap, hidden by small weeds,
Rich with eggs, slaves and store of millet-seeds.
They sleep beneath the sod
And trust in God.
In this Our World : Poems (1898)
The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.
The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935)
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.
Speech at the National American Convention (1905)
Said the little Eohippus,
"I am going to be a horse,
And on my middle fingernails
To run my earthly course!
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I'm going to have a flowing tail!
I'm going to have a mane!
I'm going to stand fourteen hands high
On the Psychozoic plain!"
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.
You think you have mastered it [the wallpaper pattern], but just as you get well under way in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you.
The Yellow Wallpaper (1891)