But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate. Charlotte Perkins Gilman More Quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman More Quotes From Charlotte Perkins Gilman It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight. Charlotte Perkins Gilman creepsdaylightknows A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband. Charlotte Perkins Gilman wifehusbandhouse But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter. Charlotte Perkins Gilman lightmatterfeelings No matter what the belief, if it had modestly said, 'This is our best thought, go on, think farther!' then we could have smoothly outgrown our early errors and long since have developed a religion such as would have kept pace with an advancing world. But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate. Charlotte Perkins Gilman errorsbelievethinking The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well. Charlotte Perkins Gilman ironsubstancebrain 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 racemotherfriendly 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 motherfatherchildren The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work. Charlotte Perkins Gilman inequalitydisheswork I used to lie awake as a child and get more entertainment and terror out of blank walls and plain furniture than most children could find in a toy-store. Charlotte Perkins Gilman walllyingchildren The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature. Charlotte Perkins Gilman abhorrentagonycivilization It would have saved trouble had I remained Perkins from the first, this changing of women's names is a nuisance we are now happily outgrowing. Charlotte Perkins Gilman nuisancenamesfirsts The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement. Charlotte Perkins Gilman institutionsimprovementhome 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 atheismforevermen One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race. Charlotte Perkins Gilman mothermistakemen Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,"You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly! Charlotte Perkins Gilman burninghotwings A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world. Charlotte Perkins Gilman atheismnormalreligious 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 mothercountrychildren The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle Charlotte Perkins Gilman circleschildrenschool Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future. Charlotte Perkins Gilman influenceliteraturepast I was climbing up a mountain-path With many things to do, Important business of my own, And other people's too, When I ran against a Prejudice That quite cut off the view. Charlotte Perkins Gilman climbingcuttingviews
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