Famous Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes

  • It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so.– Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  • It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so.– Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  • But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.– Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  • It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.– Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  • Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able, – to dress and entertain, and order things – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able, – to dress and entertain, and order things– Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  • Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.– Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  • But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way -” it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way -” it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.– Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  • 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! – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    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!– Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  • John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.– Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  • [The Yellow Wallpaper] was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked. – Charlotte Perkins Gilman

    [The Yellow Wallpaper] was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.– Charlotte Perkins Gilman