The labor of women in the house, certain... by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Author Men Women feminist Women's Rights

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

Other quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Literature

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fact

A concept is stronger than a fact.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Work

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Feeling Power History

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Sex Mind

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

- 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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