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Letter "C" » Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes
«There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver.»
Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Economist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
organ, well-spoken
«Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.»
«New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American»
«Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.»
«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»
Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Economist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Death and dying
| Keywords:
essential condition, fuss
«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»
Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Economist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Virtue
| Keywords:
collective, common interest, common school, comradeship, fairness, family circle, Modern School
«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.?»
«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.»
Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Economist, Lecturer, Writer)
| Keywords:
associated, Brain may, formerly, persist, reject, sentiments
«Life is a verb.»
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