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Housewives are kept busy by house service, not by caring for children
Drawn from what Charlotte Perkins Gilman said
What Charlotte Perkins Gilman actually said
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman American writer and feminist theorist (1860 to 1935)
It is not motherhood that keeps the housewife on her feet from dawn till dark; it is house service, not child service.
Where this was said
↗Women and Economics (1898)gutenberg.org
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