Quotes by Charlotte 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.
• Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
• To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
• The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
• 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.
• New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.
• In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
• Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
• But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.
• Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
• A concept is stronger than a fact.
• Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.
• To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
• 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.