More - Charlotte Gilman Quotes

The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.

Charlotte Gilman

 Friends Or Friendship

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

Charlotte Gilman

 Death

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

Charlotte Gilman

 Duty

The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle

Charlotte Gilman

 

It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one another!" he cried, and called it evil. This process I examined, changed the verb, said, "They all feed one another," and called it good.

Charlotte Gilman

 Buddha

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American

Charlotte Gilman

 

There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.

Charlotte Gilman

 

“There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.Behind that outside pattern the dim shapes get clearer every day.It is always the same shape, only very numerous.And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern.”

Charlotte Gilman

 

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

Charlotte Gilman

 Doctrine

However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.

Charlotte Gilman