Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes

The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard progress. We fill the world with the children of 20th century A.D. fathers and 20th century B.C. mothers.

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.

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

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

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.

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