Charlotte Perkins Gilman

"A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary."

"The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society."

"We are not really moved by the facts of the world about us."

"Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead."

"The labor we most honor is that of self-control."

"We cannot live only for ourselves."

"Human life consists in mutual service."

"Progress, true progress, is the measure of man."

"There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex."

"The highest good is the advancement of human life."

"Fear is the only thing we have to fear."

"Work is the natural exercise and the pleasurable function of every human being."

"The very foundations of our civilization rest on woman's work."

"To be able to see everything from the social point of view is to be able to understand it."

"Love is the only thing we can carry with us when we go."

"Consciousness is progressing in the human race."

"The change from unconscious to conscious work is improvement."

"We are dying for lack of ideas."

"Nothing is given to mankind."

"It is not motherhood that has been oppressed, but womanhood."

"The home is the one place of refuge and peace."

"The human soul needs actual beauty."

"The great business of life is living."

"We are making a distinct species of woman."

"Education is the key to all progress."

"Hope is the most beautiful of the gifts."

"The social contract is based on truth."

"We must think of the world as a whole."

"There is no security on earth, only opportunity."

"Art is the expression of the social life of a people."