Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• 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

  Mother, Race, Friendly

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.145, e-artnow

• The children in this country are the one center and focus of all our thoughts. Every step of our advance is always considered in its effect on them-on the race. You see, we are MOTHERS, she repeated, as if in that she had said it all.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Mother, Country, Children

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2009). “The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings”, p.77, Penguin

• 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

  Mother, Mistake, Men

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2003). “His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers”, p.217, Rowman Altamira

• As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Mother, Men, Evil

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Robert Shulman (1998). “The Yellow Wall-paper and Other Stories”, p.268, Oxford University Press, USA

• This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . . . and the world waits while she powders her nose.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Mother, Waiting, Noses

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2009). “The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings”, p.8, Penguin

• So when the great word "Mother!" rang once more, I saw at last its meaning and its place; Not the blind passion of the brooding past, But Mother -- the World's Mother -- come at last, To love as she had never loved before -- To feed and guard and teach the human race.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Inspirational, Mother, Passion

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)”, p.1838, Delphi Classics

• The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard progress.We fill the world with the children of 20th century A.D. fathers and 20th century B.C. mothers.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Mother, Children, Father

  Speech at National American Convention, 1905

• The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Mother, Doors, Hands

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist”, p.827, e-artnow

• Until mothers earn their livings, women will not

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Mother

• The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Mother, Children, Home

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics”, p.175, Booklassic

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