{"author":"Charlotte Perkins Gilman","author_id":"Charlotte+Perkins+Gilman","total_quotes":39,"quotes":[{"text":"Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.","author":"Charlotte Perkins Gilman","tags":["fashion","funny","hats","humor","humour","women"],"id":4698,"author_id":"Charlotte+Perkins+Gilman"},{"text":"Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!","author":"Charlotte Perkins Gilman","tags":["english-literature","feminism","gender","psychology"],"id":8659,"author_id":"Charlotte+Perkins+Gilman"},{"text":"John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.","author":"Charlotte Perkins Gilman","tags":["feminism","patriarchy","the yellow wallpaper"],"id":20227,"author_id":"Charlotte+Perkins+Gilman"},{"text":"There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.","author":"Charlotte Perkins Gilman","tags":["equality","feminism","women"],"id":35303,"author_id":"Charlotte+Perkins+Gilman"},{"text":"Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition to life, not an evil.","author":"Charlotte Perkins Gilman","tags":["death"],"id":38851,"author_id":"Charlotte+Perkins+Gilman"},{"text":"John says if I don't pick up faster he shall send me to Weir Mitchell in the fall.But I don't want to go there at all. I had a friend who was in his hands once, and she says he is just like John and my brother, only more so!Besides, it is such an undertaking to go so far.I don't feel as if it was worth while to turn my hand over for anything, and I'm getting dreadfully fretful and querulous.I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.Of course I don't when John is here, or anybody else, but when I am alone.","author":"Charlotte Perkins Gilman","tags":["depression","love"],"id":58411,"author_id":"Charlotte+Perkins+Gilman"},{"text":"It is only in social relations that we are human...To be human women must share in the totality of humanity's common life. Women, forced to lead restricted lives, retard all human progress. Growth of organism, the individual or social body requires use of all of our powers in four areas: physical, intellectual, spiritual and social.","author":"Charlotte Perkins Gilman","tags":["change","feminism","progress","society"],"id":58526,"author_id":"Charlotte+Perkins+Gilman"},{"text":"In all our discussions and speculations we had always unconsciously assumed that the women, whatever else they might be, would be young. Most men do think that way, I fancy. 'Woman' in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether. But these good ladies were very much on the stage, and yet any one of them might have been a grandmother. We looked for nervousness—there was none. For terror, perhaps—there was none. For uneasiness, for curiosity, for excitement—and all we saw was what might have been a vigilance committee of women doctors, as cool as cucumbers, and evidently meaning to take us to task for being there.","author":"Charlotte Perkins Gilman","tags":["age","feminism","women"],"id":58544,"author_id":"Charlotte+Perkins+Gilman"},{"text":"Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world  Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power  The world must follow you!","author":"Charlotte Perkins Gilman","tags":["labor"],"id":65542,"author_id":"Charlotte+Perkins+Gilman"},{"text":"The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.","author":"Charlotte Perkins Gilman","tags":["her","supply","female "],"id":93028,"author_id":"Charlotte+Perkins+Gilman"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":39,"pages":4,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}