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
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman
There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver.
– Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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
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
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
Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.