To swallow and follow, whether old doctr... by Charlotte Perkins Gilman | We Heart Quotes

Author Mind feminist Women's Rights Doctrine

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Other quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Audiences

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Happiness World

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Literature

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Duty Society Job Right Being

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.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Women Men

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.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Now Time

Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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