a notorious baggage

thepeoplesrecord:

Among these other great quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860-1935):

• It is the duty of youth to bring fresh new powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should life the world forward. That is what they are for.

• The first duty of a human being is to assume the right relationship to society — more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

• Love grows by service.

• The women who do the most work get the least money, and the women who have the most money do the least work.

• In our steady insistence on proclaiming sex-distinction we have grown to consider most human attributes as masculine attributes, for the simple reason that they were allowed for men and forbidden to women.

• Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine.

• The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain — the hardest and most iron-bound as well.

Source of quotes

bohemea:

Alla Kostromichova: Fashion’s Queen Bee - Bazaar by Erik Madigan Heck, March 2013

The Bletchley Circle - Never be ordinary

We dance with them, drink with them and they flatter themselves that we like them. But we’re just the ghosts in their lives. Everyone, sooner or later, has to sit down to the consequences. So they shouldn’t be surprised when we come back to haunt them.

Nicholson Baker

suicideblonde:

POPPINSESES!!

lady-noble-song13:

THANKS GOD FOR THIS. I WAS WAITING FOR THIS.

I DIDN’T KNOW I WAS WAITING FOR THIS BUT NOW IT’S ALL I EVER WANT.