A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world. - Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The color is repellent, almost revolting: a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.

Said I, in scorn all burning hot,
In rage and anger high,
"You ignominious idiot,
Those wings are made to fly!"

The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty.... From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.