However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup. Charlotte Perkins Gilman More Quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman More Quotes From Charlotte Perkins Gilman The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living." Charlotte Perkins Gilman differences pain life There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago. Charlotte Perkins Gilman long-ago patience long The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives. Charlotte Perkins Gilman our-lives home The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now. Charlotte Perkins Gilman mother home children Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive. Charlotte Perkins Gilman supper literature exciting Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized. Charlotte Perkins Gilman work-out home thinking Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain. Charlotte Perkins Gilman women girl boys Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be. Charlotte Perkins Gilman should steps To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more. Charlotte Perkins Gilman influence beautiful beauty The people people have for friends Charlotte Perkins Gilman common-sense marriage people It is not that women are really smaller-minded, weaker-minded, more timid and vacillating, but that whosoever, man or woman, lives always in a small, dark place, is always guarded, protected, directed and restrained, will become inevitably narrowed and weakened by it. Charlotte Perkins Gilman dark inspiring men I have preferred chloroform to cancer Charlotte Perkins Gilman chloroform cancer While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day. Charlotte Perkins Gilman eye change years The female of genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply. Charlotte Perkins Gilman dependent males female Until mothers earn their livings, women will not Charlotte Perkins Gilman mother And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body. Charlotte Perkins Gilman body soul men Concepts antedate facts. Charlotte Perkins Gilman concepts facts ideas If only religion could be brought to take an interest in this earthly future, what a help it would be! ... Think of the appeal to the less spiritual of us, to those who never did get enthusiastic about eternity, or care so tenderly about their own souls, yet who could rise to the thought of improving this world for the children they love, and their children after them. Charlotte Perkins Gilman spiritual children thinking As to ethics, unfortunately, we are still at sea. We never did have any popular base for what little ethics we knew, except the religious theories, and now that our faith is shaken in those theories we cannot account for ethics at all. It is no wonder we behave badly, we are literally ignorant of the laws of ethics, which is the simplest of sciences, the most necessary, the most continuously needed. The childish misconduct of our 'revolted youth' is quite equaled by that of older people, and neither young nor old seem to have any understanding of the reasons why conduct is 'good' or 'bad. Charlotte Perkins Gilman religious law sea Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and science that we have made it; and while every woman prepares food for her own family, cooking can never rise beyond the level of the amateur's work. Charlotte Perkins Gilman house men art
