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 This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . . . and the world waits while she powders her nose. Charlotte Perkins Gilman mother noses waiting I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition. Charlotte Perkins Gilman sensitive nervous thinking Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey. Charlotte Perkins Gilman monkeys insane looks It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he cried, and called it evil. This process I examined, changed the verb and said, "They all feed one another," and called it good. Charlotte Perkins Gilman verbs evil life 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 aquariums imagination death 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 damage claims should Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine. Charlotte Perkins Gilman healthy brain believe A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value. Charlotte Perkins Gilman unity tables together There's heaven. There it is. What more do we mean? People, free to come together, and in beauty - for growth. Charlotte Perkins Gilman heaven mean people 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 atheism believe thinking I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time. Charlotte Perkins Gilman cry The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God, gaveus relgions which coule not possible maintained without belief and obedience: ... we find them most permanent and changeless among people who make the least effort to swquare their beliefs with the laws of life. Charlotte Perkins Gilman law men people 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. Charlotte Perkins Gilman atheism gone firsts 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 doe blood america I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm! Charlotte Perkins Gilman worms want 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 sodAnd trust in God. Charlotte Perkins Gilman weed sleep moving 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 crazy reading years So when the great word "Mother!" rang once more, I saw at last its meaning and its place; Not the blind passion of the brooding past, But Mother -- the World's Mother -- come at last, To love as she had never loved before -- To feed and guard and teach the human race. Charlotte Perkins Gilman passion mother inspirational Grateful return for happiness conferred is not the method of exchange in a partnership. The comfort a man takes with his wife is not in the nature of a business partnership, nor are her frugality and industry. Charlotte Perkins Gilman grateful business men The religious need of the human mind remains alive, never more so, but it demands a teaching which can be understood. Slowly an apprehension of the intimate, usable power of God is growing among us, and a growing recognition of the only worth-while application of that power-in the improvement of the world. Charlotte Perkins Gilman teaching religious mind
