Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes

• La vida es un verbo, no un sustantivo.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Love, Verbs, Nouns

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1904). “Human Work”, p.203, Rowman Altamira

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• Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Steps, Should

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1999). “The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader”, p.20, University of Virginia Press

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• And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Hombres, Alma, Cuerpo

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.103, e-artnow

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• 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.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Horse, Men, House

  Women and Economics ch. 1 (1898)

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• What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Hecho

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.35, e-artnow

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• To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Peace, Mind, Weakness

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• Un hombre no tiene por qué quedarse en casa todo el día para amarla; ¿por qué debería hacerlo una mujer?

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Home, Men, Order

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist”, p.602, e-artnow

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• Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Home, Thinking, Work Out

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.96, e-artnow

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• We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.

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  Years, Atheism, Done

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2003). “His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers”, p.12, Rowman Altamira

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• En una sociedad enferma, las mujeres que tienen dificultades para encajar no están enfermas, sino que demuestran una respuesta sana y positiva.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Sick, Healthy, Fitting

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• I have preferred chloroform to cancer

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Cancer, Chloroform

  Carol Farley Kessler, Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1995). “Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Her Progress Toward Utopia with Selected Writings”, p.40, Syracuse University Press

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• To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Beauty, Beautiful, Influence

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics”, p.44, Booklassic

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• Trabajar no es sólo un derecho, es un deber. Trabajar al máximo de las propias capacidades es necesario para el desarrollo humano, el pleno uso de las mejores facultades, que es la salud y la felicidad tanto para el hombre como para la mujer.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Work, Men, Use

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist”, p.921, e-artnow

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• No es que las mujeres sean realmente más pequeñas de mente, más débiles, más tímidas y vacilantes, sino que quienquiera, hombre o mujer, que viva siempre en un lugar pequeño y oscuro, que esté siempre vigilado, protegido, dirigido y restringido, se volverá inevitablemente estrecho y debilitado por ello.

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  Inspiring, Dark, Men

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “The Home”, p.229, eKitap Projesi

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• Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Girl, Women, Boys

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.43, e-artnow

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• But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

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  Light, Feelings, Matter

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.321, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• 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

  Work, Dishes, Inequality

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.14, e-artnow

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• Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Death, Peace, Eternity Of Life

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• In our steady insistence on proclaiming sex-distinction we have grown to consider most human attributes as masculine attributes, for the simple reason that they were allowed to men and forbidden to women.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Sex, Simple, Men

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.29, e-artnow

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• But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.

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  Creer, Pensar, Ateísmo

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2003). “His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers”, p.190, Rowman Altamira

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• 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

  Mother, Race, Friendly

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.145, e-artnow

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• A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Men, Honor, Want

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1999). “The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader”, p.119, University of Virginia Press

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• 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.

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  Children, Wall, Lying

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Shawn St. Jean (2006). “"The Yellow Wall-paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-text Critical Edition”, p.31, Ohio University Press

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• Love grows by service.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Love, Love Grows, Grows

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.58, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

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  Happiness, Happy, Believe

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