The female of the genus homo is economic... by Charlotte Perkins Gilman | We Heart Quotes

Author Food feminist Women's Rights sociologist

The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Americans

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

- 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

Literature

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

- 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

American

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

- 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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