There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman


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In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman


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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


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

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Most men’s eyes, when you look at them critically, are not like that. They may look at you very expressively, but when you look at them, just as features, they are not very nice.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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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.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman


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I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman


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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.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Will you excuse us all,” [Jeff] said, “if we admit that we find it hard to believe? There is no such-possibility-in the rest of the world.”
Have you no kind of life where [asexual reproduction] is possible?” asked Zava.
“Why, yes-some low forms, of course.”
“How low-or how high, rather?

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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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!

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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