Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

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

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

A free life cannot acquire many possessions, because this is not easy to do without servility to mobs or monarchs.

Under the previous regime of Prime Minister Meles Zenawi, I was detained. So was my wife, Serkalem Fasil. She gave birth to our son in prison in 2005.

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.