But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.
About Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman ( nee Perkins; July 3, 1860 – August 17, 1935), also known by her first married name Charlotte Perkins Stetson, was an American humanist, novelist, writer, lecturer, early sociologist, advocate for social reform, and eugenicist. She was a utopian feminist and served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle.
More quotes from Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860-1935)
Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860-1935)
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860-1935)
The one predominant duty is to find one’s work and do it.
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860-1935)
A concept is stronger than a fact.
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860-1935)
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.
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860-1935)
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860-1935)
New York – that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860-1935)
There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860-1935)
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.
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860-1935)
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860-1935)
The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860-1935)
Eternity is not something that begins after you’re dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860-1935)
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.
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860-1935)
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society – more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860-1935)
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860-1935)
But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.
American feminist, writer, artist, and lecturer (1860-1935)