Quotes About Empowerment

They were inconveniently reasonable, these women.

Those who too patiently serve as props sometimes underrate the possibilities of the vine.

The Yellow Wallpaper] was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.

Woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body

We thought of them as "Women," and therefore timid; but it was two thousand years since they had had anything to be afraid of, and certainly more than one thousand since they had outgrown the feeling.

they were Mothers, not in our sense of helpless involuntary fecundity, forced to fill and overfill the land, every land, and then see their children suffer, sin, and die, fighting horribly with one another; but in the sense of Conscious Makers of People. Mother-love with them was not a brute passion, a mere "instinct," a wholly personal feeling; it was—a religion.

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.

We do things FROM our mothers—not FOR them. We don't have to do things FOR them—they don't need it, you know. But we have to live on—splendidly—because of them; and that's the way we feel about God.

In exact proportion as women grow independent, educated, wise and free, do they become less submissive to men-made fashions.

Why not? Why not be your own man for once in your life — do what you want to — not what other people want you to?

You see, they were Mothers, not in our sense of helpless involuntary fecundity, forced to fill and overfill the land, every land, and then see their children suffer, sin, and die, fighting horribly with one another; but in the sense of Conscious Makers of People.

She is held from within by every hardened layer of untouched instinct which has accumulated through the centuries; she is opposed from without by such mountain ranges of prejudice as would be insurmountable if prejudice were made of anything real.

And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935) was a prominent American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform.

What Diantha Did was first published in serialised form in Gilman's magazine The Forerunner between late 1909 and October 1910.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

We found a friendly nut-tree, those large, satisfying nuts we already knew so well, and filled our pockets. I see that I have not remarked that these women had pockets in surprising number and variety. They were in all their garments.

Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.

This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . . . and the world waits while she powders her nose.

Would it be said they were abandoned or taken, the way people said a girl was attacked, a woman was raped, this femaleness always at the centre, as if womanhood itself were the cause of these things? As if the girls somehow, through the natural way of things, did it to themselves.

she would fill the silence with her own sweet voice.

Fludity and capacity are business skills - rigidity and limitation are not!

Management is how well it runs when you are there: Leadership is how well it runs when you are not.

There was a point - when I was a kid - where I said I wanted to be like Luke Skywalker, with blond hair and blue eyes. My mom right there told me to never be ashamed of who I am.