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.
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.
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.
There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
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.
Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.
the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed
And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.
[The Yellow Wallpaper] was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.
John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.
I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is no reason to suffer, and that satisfies him.
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!
But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.
Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.
Nobody would believe what an effort it is to do what little I am able, – to dress and entertain, and order things
It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.
But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.
He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction.I have a schedule prescription for each hour in the day; he takes all care from me, and so I feel basely ungrateful not to value it more.
It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so.
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
New York – that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American
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!
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
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.