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

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, American Writer

Food,

6

Create Your Own Wallpaper

Standard

Customized

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

Exlpore more Food quotes

"If music be the food of love, play on."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

Food, Music, Love, Play

"I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex."

Bertrand Russell, British Philosopher

Food, Time, Sex, People

"We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."

George Orwell, British Author

Food, Machine, May

"We have had for breakfast, toasts, cakes, a yorkshire pie, a piece of beef about the size and much the shape of my portmanteau, tea, coffee, ham and eggs..."

Charles Dickens, English Novelist

Food, Life, Detail, Experience

"There is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured. The only solution known to science is to provide the patient with an isolation room, where he can endure the acute stages in private and where food can be poked in to him with a stick."

Robert A. Heinlein, American Writer

Food, Science, Isolation, Solution

"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."

Woody Allen, American Director

Food,

"I'm not sure why it is, but I love food more than just about anything else."

Sylvia Plath, American Poet

Food, Passion, Happiness, Desire

"Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction."

John Owen, English Theologian

Food, Destruction, Exercise, Man

"On this National Agriculture Day, when we all should be taking time to thank and pay tribute to America's farmers, ranchers and their families who produce the food for our tables, we are finding those same people in dire need of our help and support."

Michael McCaul, American Politician

Food, Time, People, Agriculture

"For the most part this is a place to find down-to-earth advice on everyday cooking, eating, food shopping, cooking equipment, and nice things to put on your table."

Arthur Schwartz, American Composer

Food, Advice, Cooking, Eating

Explore more quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

"To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind."

Critical thinking

"But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter."

History

"Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now."

Time

"A concept is stronger than a fact."

Fact

"Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized."

Work

"Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive."

Literature

"New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American."

Nostalgia

"The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it."

Work

"Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning."

Entertainment

"Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil."

Death