30 ordspråk av Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman föddes den July 3rd 1860 och dog 1935 - an early theorist of the feminist movement.
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 "A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband." (on the term "housewife") |
| "A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband." (on the term "housewife") |
| "What is the matter?" he cried. "For God's sake, what are you doing!"
I kept on creeping just the same, but I looked at him over my shoulder. "I've got out at last," said I, "in spite of you and Jane. And I've pulled off most of the paper, so you can't put me back!” Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time! |
| “There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.
Behind that outside pattern the dim shapes get clearer every day. It is always the same shape, only very numerous. And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern.” |
| ... while we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day. |
| A concept is stronger than a fact. |
| Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning. |
| But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter. |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now. |
| Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive. |
| Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine. |
| However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup. |
| Human life consists in mutual service. No grief, pain, misfortune, or "broken heart," is excuse for cutting off one's life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one. |
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