Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes About Effort

Quotes about: Effort

• The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God, gaveus relgions which coule not possible maintained without belief and obedience: ... we find them most permanent and changeless among people who make the least effort to swquare their beliefs with the laws of life.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Men, Law, People

• If we once admit that our life is here for the purpose of race-improvement, then we question any religion which does not improve the race, or the main force of which evaporates, as it were, directing our best efforts toward the sky.... Improvement in the human race is not accomplished by extracting any number of souls and placing them in heaven, or elsewhere. It must be established on earth, either through achievement in social service, or through better children.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Children, Sky, Best Effort

• But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Thinking, Effort, Relief

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2012). “The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories”, p.7, Courier Corporation

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