Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes

The only thing the women were after was just the chance to help the world on. But some men were so dreadfully afraid of them that they refused to understand, and talked about 'shrieking sisterhoods' and 'disappointed spinsters' and rubbish of that sort.

... so long as woman labors to second man's endeavors and exalt his sex above her own, her virtues pass unquestioned; but when shedares to demand rights and privileges for herself, her motives, manners, dress, personal appearance, and character are subjects for ridicule and detraction.

I adopted the assumption of many of my generation that women were intellectually inferior to men, that we were not capable of governing, leading, managing anything but our homes and our children.

The women's movement is taking a different form right now, and it is because it has been so effective and so successful that there's a huge counter movement to try to stop it, to try to divide women from one another, to try to almost foment divisiveness.

It's tragic when people think feminism is a dirty word.

I don't know why it's still a taboo to be a feminist.

… this mad, wicked folly of women’s rights

I’m furious about the Women’s Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That’s true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket.

I want men to stop calling me a queen and treating me like an imbecile.

The very same people who 40 years ago were saying that feminism was unnatural and unnecessary are now saying “Well, it used to be necessary, but it’s not any more.”

Every movement takes a century to make its mark. The women’s movement is only 40 some years old.

Women who can, do. Those who can't become feminists.

The thing that I would say you get the most hate about on social media, in my experience, is if you tweet anything about women's rights or feminism. It blows my mind. But it's the thought of not being a feminist that actually blows my mind.

There's no prize for being the best woman.

Sexism definitely exists - you see that in all walks of life.

Nobody that I know would ever say that I'm sexist.

She had once said that she believed the women's liberation movement of the sixties and seventies was actually a ploy by men to get women to do more.

You're going to women? Don't forget your whip!

So tell me gentleman, tell me the time and place where it was easy to be a woman.

I'm a huge supporter of women. What I'm not is a supporter of liberalism. Feminism is what I oppose. Feminism has led women astray. I love the women's movement — especially when walking behind it.

[Addressing a group of military officers:] Are you a feminist? Oh ... wrong question. I should have asked, 'Are you a father?' When your daughter loses her job to a clearly less-qualified man, you will discover you are a feminist.

Misogyny is ingrained in people from the time they are born. So to me, feminism is probably the most important movement that you could embrace, because it's just basically another word for equality.

The inferiority of women is man-made.

Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition.

I think people are frightened of women making big decisions.