Quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Concepts

Facts

Stronger

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

Honor

Men

Want

As for mother Eve – I wasn’t there and can’t deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion’s share of keeping it going ever since.

Evil

Men

Mother

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

Audience

Retorts

Smart

But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.

Effort

Relief

Thinking

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

Atheism

Believe

Thinking

California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.

Bed

California

Taken

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

Death

Eternity Of Life

Peace

Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!

Children

Ethics

Morality

For men obsessed with women’s underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.

Men

Obsessed

Underwear

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Absence

Accepting

America

Atheism

Audience

Average

Bases

Bed

Believe

Best Effort

Bitterness

Block

Blood

Boys

Burning

Business

California

Cancer

Change

Children

Chloroform

Claims

Climbing

Concepts

Country

Crazy

Creeps

Cry

Cutting

Damage

Dark

Daylight

Death

Differences

Doe

Done

Doors

Effects

Effort

Eternity Of Life

Ethics

Evil

Eye

Facts

Familiar

Father

Feelings

Fire

Firsts

Forever

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Quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A concept is stronger than a fact.

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

As for mother Eve – I wasn’t there and can’t deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion’s share of keeping it going ever since.

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.

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

California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.

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

Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant!

For men obsessed with women’s underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.

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