Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes

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.

Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!

Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading The Yellow Wallpaper. It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.

A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.

The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.

The color is repellent, almost revolting: a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.

This wallpaper has a kind of sub-pattern in a different shade, a particularly irritating one, for you can only see it in certain lights, and not clearly then.

I'm getting really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. Perhaps because of the wallpaper.

There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will.