Charlotte Gilman Quotations

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.

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

The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

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!

... while we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.

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

A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband." (on the term "housewife")