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

Quote by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Book: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

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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

This book delves into the economic dynamics between men and women, examining how these relationships influence societal development. The author, a renowned figure in feminist literature, is celebrated for her influential works, including 'The Yellow Wallpaper' and 'Herland', which further solidify her place in the history of feminist fiction. more

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an American novelist, social reformer, and feminist. Her works explored the status of women in society, family, and career, and had a profound impact on women's literature and social movements. more

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Book:Women and Economics

Source: Women and Economics

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Book: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

Source: 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

“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.”

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Book: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

Source: 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

“Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world, Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power, The world must follow you!”

World May Use House Hours Labor Complaining

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)

“The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.”

Should Humans Ends Dies Human Beings Civilization Creatures Agony Abhorrent

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)

“California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.”

States Taken Theory Bed Equal Speed Seeds Enthusiasm California Cult

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)

“We are pushed forward by the social forces, reluctant and stumbling, our faces over our shoulders, clutching at every relic of the past as we are forced along; still adoring whatever is behind us. We insist upon worshipping 'the God of our fathers.' Why not the God of our children? Does eternity only stretch one way?”

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Book:The Home

Source: The Home

“In great cities where people of ability abound, there is always a feverish urge to keep ahead, to set the pace, to adopt each new fashion in thought and theory as well as in dress - or undress.”

People Wells Ability Cities Fashion Theory Dresses Urges Pace Great Cities

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)

“In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.”

Social Process Accepting Materials Conventions Status Quo Social Life Newness Business Life

Book:Human Work

Source: Human Work

“In the field of economics we maintain to this day some of the most primitive ideas, some of the most radically false ideas, some of the most absurd ideas a brain can hold. ... but all this give no uneasiness to the average brain. That long-suffering organ has been trained for more thousands of years than history can uncover to hold in unquestioning patience great blocks of irrelevant idiocy and large active lies.”