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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Cytaty po angielsku

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

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

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

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Źródło: The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

“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.”

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will.”

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman książka The Yellow Wall Paper

The Yellow Wallpaper (1891)
Źródło: The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

“But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.”

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Źródło: The Yellow Wall-Paper

“Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!”

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Źródło: The Yellow Wall-Paper

“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.”

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Źródło: The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings

“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.”

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.”

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.”

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Źródło: The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories

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

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Źródło: The Yellow Wall-Paper

“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.”

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.”

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“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.”

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“I never saw a worse paper in my life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin.”

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Źródło: The Yellow Wall-Paper

“John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.”

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Źródło: The Yellow Wall-Paper

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

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Źródło: The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader

“Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.”

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Źródło: The Man-Made World

“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.”

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman książka Herland

Źródło: Herland

“The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.”

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman, (1935).

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

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

“The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty…. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.”

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Źródło: Women and Economics (1898), Ch. 13.

“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!”

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman książka The Yellow Wall Paper

The Yellow Wallpaper (1891)

“I'm getting really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. Perhaps because of the wallpaper.”

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman książka The Yellow Wall Paper

The Yellow Wallpaper (1891)

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

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman książka 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.”

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

“Said I, in scorn all burning hot,
In rage and anger high,
"You ignominious idiot,
Those wings are made to fly!"”

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

“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.”

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Źródło: Women and Economics (1898), Ch. 1.

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

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

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