31 ordspråk av Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman föddes den 3 juli 1860 och dog 1935 - an early theorist of the feminist movement.
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Human life consists in mutual service. No grief, pain, misfortune, or "broken heart," is excuse for cutting off one's life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

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

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver.

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.

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American

The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

“There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.
Behind that outside pattern the dim shapes get clearer every day.
It is always the same shape, only very numerous.
And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern.”

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

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

"What is the matter?" he cried. "For God's sake, what are you doing!"
I kept on creeping just the same, but I looked at him over my shoulder.
"I've got out at last," said I, "in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!”
Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!

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

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, said, "They all feed one another," and called it good.

There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.

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.

... while we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.

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