Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Doing

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was American feminist, writer, commercial artist, lecturer and social reformer. Explore interesting quotes on doing.

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“It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Source: The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

“It does not do to trust people too much.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Source: The Yellow Wall-Paper

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

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Source: Women and Economics (1898), Ch. 10.

“A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman book His Religion and Hers

His Religion and Hers, (1923).

“I do not want to be a fly,
I want to be a worm!”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A Conservative.
In this Our World : Poems (1898)