Top 17 Quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

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

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

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.

A concept is stronger than a fact.

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

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.