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Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland

Book by Charlotte Perkins Gilman · 19 quotes · Men, Humans, Sex

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Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland Quotes

“To-day there is hardly a woman of intelligence in all America ... who is not definitely and actively concerned in some social interest, who does not recognize some duty besides those incident to her own blood relationship.”

“Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man.”

“The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.”

“Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.”

“We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.”

“What we do modifies us more than what is done to us.”

“Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.”

“In our steady insistence on proclaiming sex-distinction we have grown to consider most human attributes as masculine attributes, for the simple reason that they were allowed to men and forbidden to women.”

“To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.”

“There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.”

“Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and science that we have made it; and while every woman prepares food for her own family, cooking can never rise beyond the level of the amateur's work.”

“We all need one another; much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred, private "home" of his own, so all human creatures need a place to be together in, from the two who can show each other their souls uninterruptedly, to the largest throng that can throb and stir in unison.”

“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.”

“While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.”

“And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.”

“Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.”

“The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle”

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

“Grateful return for happiness conferred is not the method of exchange in a partnership. The comfort a man takes with his wife is not in the nature of a business partnership, nor are her frugality and industry.”