Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Quotes about the world

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

Charlotte Perkins Gilman: 80 quotes1 like

“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.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“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

Source: The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings

“This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place… and the world waits while she powders her nose.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“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).

“A million million worlds that move in peace;
A million mighty laws that never cease;
And one small ant-heap, hidden by small weeds,
Rich with eggs, slaves and store of millet-seeds.
They sleep beneath the sod
And trust in God.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A Common Inference.
In this Our World : Poems (1898)