Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
More Quotes from 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
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.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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