Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply. ”

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

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. ”

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it. ”

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

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

Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now. ”

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. ”

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

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it. ”