Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Woman

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

“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

“Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Source: The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader

“Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman book Herland

Source: Herland

“Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out. The front pattern does move-and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it!”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman book The Yellow Wall Paper

The Yellow Wallpaper (1891)

“To-day there is hardly a woman of intelligence in all America, to say nothing of other countries, who is not definitely and actively concerned in some social interest, who does not recognize some duty besides those incident to her own blood relationship.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Source: Women and Economics (1898), Ch. 8.

“It becomes bars! The outside pattern, I mean, and the women behind it is as plain as can be. I didn't realize for a long time what the thing was that showed behind, that dim sub-pattern, but now I am quite sure it is a woman. By daylight she is subdued, quiet. I fancy it is the pattern that keeps her so still.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman book The Yellow Wall Paper

The Yellow Wallpaper (1891)