The Herland Trilogy Quotes

“ONE of the most distinctive features of the human mind is to forecast better things. “We look before and after
And pine for what is not.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Herland Trilogy: Moving the Mountain, Herland, With Her in Ourland

“Democracy calls for the understanding, recognition, and universal practise of social laws,—laws which are "natural," like those of physics and chemistry; but your religion—and your education, too— taught Authority—not real law.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Herland Trilogy: Moving the Mountain, Herland, With Her in Ourland