The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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  2. Are you a female dog?"" What?" Massie asked. "Why?" - Lisi Harrison

  3. Beauty is a female thing. That's why nature is so stunning. - Anthony T.Hincks

  4. The Dimwit's Guide to the Female Mind might assist your efforts in understanding human females. But it must be pointed out that this subject can be a dangerous adventure and should be undertaken with extreme caution. After all, human males have been trying to understand... - Anne Bishop

  5. How initially 'to get her in the sack' and subsequently to avoid 'her giving you the sack' are not identical dilemmas faced by the male species, but they sure have a bizarre habit of being bedfellows - Alex Morritt

More Quotes By Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  1. Death? Why all this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition to life, not an evil.

  2. As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.

  3. Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.

  4. There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

  5. Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.

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