FastSaying
"A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband." (on the term "housewife")
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
House
Housewife
Husband
Needs
Not
Term
Wife
Related Quotes
Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Begins
Dead
Eternity
There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Brain
Female
Mind
Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Erect
Eyed
Future
I know what it is to live entirely for and with what I love best on earth. I hold myself supremely blest -- blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband's life as fully as he is mine.
— Charlotte Brontë
husband
love
marriage
The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
— Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Assume
Being
Duty