Quote #6

A million million worlds that move in peace; A million mighty laws that never cease; And one small ant-heap, hidden by small weeds, Rich with eggs, slaves and store of millet-seeds. They sleep beneath the sod And trust in God.

More from Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  1. Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
  2. Said I, in scorn all burning hot, In rage and anger high, 'You ignominious idiot, Those wings are made to fly!'
  3. The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economi…
  4. I do not want to be a fly, I want to be a worm!
  5. To-day there is hardly a woman of intelligence in all America ... who is not definitely and actively concerned in some social interest, who…
  6. There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
  7. 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 i…

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