Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes

war and the 'war of the sexes' are neither divinely nor biologically ordained.

In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.

Women! Can't live with 'em, can't live with 'em!

I have thought that men and women should never come together except in bed. There is the only place where their natural hatred of each other is not so apparent.

I don't hate women - they just sometimes make me mad.

I don't believe in paying for sex. Which is why I'll never again pay for a woman's dinner.

I would argue that something dark is lurking between the sexes, and that it is seeping out into cinema.

Women tear each other apart.

I'm not involved with the female world.

Woman is also the element of conflict.

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.

The anger that appears to be building up between the sexes becomes more virulent with every day that passes. And far from women taking the blame... the fact is that men are invariably portrayed as the bad guys. Being a good man is like being a good Nazi.

She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.

I'm more than open to hope, but I think men and women have a difficult time dealing with each other and often take the low road.

Demands for equality for women are threats to men's self-esteem and sense of sexual turf.

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

Among the progress of the human mind that is most important for human happiness, we must count the entire destruction of the prejudices that have established inequality between the sexes, fatal even to the sex it favors….This inequality has no other source but the abuse of power, and men have tried in vain to excuse it by sophisms.

Women's degradation is in man's idea of his sexual rights. Our religion, laws, customs, are all founded on the belief that woman was made for man.

I have no time for it at all, when women just don't like women. I don't get it.

To my mind, it is better to have regrets about the good aspects of your former marriage because you were able to work past some of your accumulated resentments than to have no regrets because you had to ratchet up the hostility to get out in the first place.

I've definitely had my struggles with the male species, as I'm sure most girls have.

Leave it to a girl to take the fun out of sex discrimination.

Women always find their bitterest foes among their own sex.

Whenever I hear a man talking of the advantages of our ill-used sex, I look upon it as the prelude to some new act of authority.

Women can never forgive me; they hate me, they feel that I am disarming them. I show them without their coquetry.