Gilman Feminist Quotes

It's time we woke up, women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress like fools- but who´s to blame for that? We invent all those idiotic hats of theirs, and design their crazy fashions, and, what's more, if a woman is courageous enough to wear common-sense clothes -and shoes- which of us wants to dance with her? Yes, we blame them for gratifying us, but are we willing to let our wives work? We are not. It hurts our pride, that's all. We are always criticizing them for doing mercenary marriages, but what do we call a girl who marries a chump with no money? Just a poor fool, that's all. And they know it.
As for Mother Eve- I wasn't there and I can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the loin's share of keeping it going ever since- how about that? ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Living with Benj was like experiencing an unfolding miracle. ~ Priscilla Gilman

Give up Robert." He opened his eyes. "Quit now and we'll go easy on you." -Price Sisters ~ Charles Gilman

The fact is I am getting a little afraid of John. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Two boys.
Both supposed to be dead.
Double trouble. ~ David Gilman

evil is, after all, only a deficiency of goodness. ~ Dorothy Gilman

But only this-that people who are utterly ignorant will believe anything-which you certainly knew before. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fine watches, I'd been told, were like rich people themselves: You could barely discern them working. ~ Susan Jane Gilman

They were inconveniently reasonable, these women. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Children put everything in perspective, they remind you of what's important, you see the world anew through there eyes. ~ Priscilla Gilman

Patriarchy is women structuring lifelong decisions around men they haven't met. ~ Maggie Young

I am a trained professional liar. Do not read me as a textbook. ~ Laura Anne Gilman

Will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later. ~ Dorothy Gilman

It's when we're given choice that we sit with the gods and design ourselves. ~ Dorothy Gilman

Life is a verb, not a noun. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I always lock the door when I creep by daylight. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This is me figuring good behavior is for someone much younger.
Kestrel ~ Sarah Purdy Gilman

The work is what it is and hopefully it's seen as feminist work, or feminist-advised work, but I'm not going to go around espousing theoretical bullshit about feminist stuff. ~ Cindy Sherman

Besides, nobody ever loves you the way you want. ~ Susan Jane Gilman

It's funny how much you attach yourself to everyone around you when you film. ~ Jared Gilman

What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women? ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Sure, beauty has the power to excite men. But so does a box of donuts. ~ Susan Jane Gilman

Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Both therapy and friendship possessed the common denominator of discovering a self ... ~ Dorothy Gilman

Embody the three harmonies: within; with others; and with nature. ~ Robert Gilman

...why doesn't anything end happily?"
"Because," said Mrs. Pollifax slowly, "there are no happy endings, Jenny, there are only happy people. ~ Dorothy Gilman

Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman. ~ 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

John is away all day, and even some nights when his cases are serious. I am glad my case is not serious! ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

I don't think I'd ever really survive the outdoors. ~ Jared Gilman

I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Most men's eyes, when you look at them critically, are not like that. They may look at you very expressively, but when you look at them, just as features, they are not very nice. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

If it's comfortable it's not feminist - unless of course we're talking about shoes. ~ Jennifer Baumgardner

A girl doesn't need a guy in her life in order to act like a complete idiot. Certainly I, at least, never have. ~ Susan Jane Gilman

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

he appeared to be struggling with something trapped in his throat; it turned out to be a word. "thanks," he said. ~ Dorothy Gilman

The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time! ~ Laura Anne Gilman

When a gourd is hollowed out it becomes empty and is of great use to the world because of its emptiness. ~ Dorothy Gilman

My Dad has been a feminist, way before I learnt how to spell the word. ~ Shahla Khan

There are the two of you - the two sexes- to love and help one another. It must be a rich and wonderful world ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Whenever a woman describes herself as a 'post-feminist' I picture women lashed to posts. Joan of Arc was an early post-feminist. ~ Kate Clinton

Of course [I'm a feminist]. And everyone I know is a feminist. ~ Chelsea Clinton

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It's terribly important for everyone, at any age, to live to his full potential. Otherwise a kind of dry rot sets in, a rust, a disintegration of personality, ~ Dorothy Gilman

We overlook how much in our lives is invisible; love, for instance; thought, God, the future, time, faith, hope and even the electricity that brings us light. ~ Dorothy Gilman

Sara had grown up in a Balavati family, which meant she had been taught to reject all articles of faith except disrespect for authority, the lodestone of her life. ~ Carolyn Ives Gilman

My rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the other. ~ Dorothy Gilman

He says no one can help me out of it, that I must use my will and self-control and not let any silly fancies run away with me. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power. ~ Laura Anne Gilman

Do you like Magda too?" His gaze left the gate to sweep the courtyard. "She seems pleasant enough when she's not drugged. But then she nearly always is, isn't she?" He ~ Dorothy Gilman

Do you love him enough to do something to win him - to really put yourself out somewhat for that purpose? ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I want my poor value to exist past me, somewhere else. ~ Richard Gilman

Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition to life, not an evil. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Everything became a metaphor, a talisman, a sign that I was still actually connected to people - that I wasn't so completely on my own. ~ Susan Jane Gilman

Power calls to those who are hungry for power, and there are hungry idiots everywhere. ~ Laura Anne 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

I called her "the Chiquita Banana Lady" and I meant it as a compliment: who didn't want to look adorable with a pile of fruit on her head? ~ Susan Jane Gilman

In exact proportion as women grow independent, educated, wise and free, do they become less submissive to men-made fashions. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Call it not paranoia, but caution. ~ Laura Anne Gilman

A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it; why should a woman? ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Misbehaviour does not require a cape, shades or a bazooka. It is in decisions we make that challenge the notions adopted to keep us well behaved ~ Malebo Sephodi

There's heaven. There it is. What more do we mean? People, free to come together, and in beauty - for growth. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

What kind of word is 'methodal'?" David asked. "A buzzword," Ashok answered, this time himself. "Methodal. Sounds like a drug." "That's what buzzwords are. Tranquilizers." "Thought suppressants, you mean. ~ Carolyn Ives Gilman

Women accept [man-made] conventions, repeat them, enforce them upon their daughters; but they originate with men. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The painful truth is that while we might have the illusion, none of us are free. ~ Laura Anne Gilman

The most familiar facts are often hardest to understand. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I am a feminist, and I define myself: Be yourself, because if you can get away with it, that is the ultimate feminist act. ~ Liz Phair

There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I'm kind of a huge movie buff and a video game nerd person. ~ Jared Gilman

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

That's the thing about luxury, darlings. The moment you become accustomed to it, it is no longer a luxury but a necessity. People forget this. ~ Susan Jane Gilman

One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I have opinions, sure, but they're mine, not something I'm going to insist everyone else take as any kind of gospel. ~ Laura Anne Gilman

If life was like a body of water, she had asked that she be allowed to walk again in its shallows; instead she had been abruptly seized by strong currents and pushed into deep water. ~ Dorothy Gilman

The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement. ~ 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

I am what would be called a 'mainstream feminist,' not a radical feminist. ~ Joyce Carol Oates

The goals of the feminist movement have not been achieved, and those who claim we're living in a post-feminist era are either sadly mistaken or tired of thinking about the whole subject. ~ Margaret Atwood

The best things arrive on time. ~ Dorothy Gilman

I deplore the shying away that can go on, within women, from the term 'feminist.' I am, absolutely, all about being a feminist. ~ Cindy Gallop

I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I was always a very indoor videogame nerd movie buff ... Now I've come to appreciate Scouts and the outdoors. ~ Jared Gilman

It is the strangest yellow, that wallpaper! It makes me think of all the yellow things I ever saw - not beautiful ones like buttercups, but old foul, bad yellow things. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

I milked my typical persona as a gritty, intellectual sex-positive feminist that men loved to conquer, toss aside, and shove into their conquest collection in the dusty backs of their closets. ~ Maggie Young

There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

It's self-deceptive to think we're in a post-feminist world when we never tried a feminist world. ~ Ellen Goodman

Powerlessness is such a lure, such a poisonous lure. ~ Carolyn Ives Gilman

I was madly in love with not so much what was there as with what I supposed to be there. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fine blunderers in ethics we are, so generally conveying to children the basic impression that pleasantness must be wrong, and right doing unpleasant! ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Baseball is a game dominated by vital ghosts; it's a fraternity, like no other we have of the active and the no longer so, the living and the dead. ~ Richard Gilman