Quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

Human life consists in mutual service. No grief pain misfortune or broken heart is excuse for cutting off ones life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.

Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power The world must follow you!

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

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.

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.

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.

“Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition to life, not an evil.”