A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband. (on the term housewife)
More Quotes from Charlotte Gilman:
The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle.Charlotte Gilman
But there are some things one takes for granted, supposes are mutually understood, and to which both parties may repeatedly refer without ever meaning the same thing.
Charlotte Gilman
Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest the future, not the past
Charlotte Gilman
Habits of thought persist through the centuries and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine.
Charlotte Gilman
There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.
Charlotte Gilman
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I don't believe in killing whatever the reason!
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