Thanks for the link to the Wikipedia article on Charlotte Perkins Gilman. One more example of a feminist leader who suffered from psychosis and ended her life by suicide. Most frightening, however, is that these women are determined to tell everyone else — both men and women — how to live their lives. Women who are psychotic and eventually kill themselves seem determined to control the lives of others.
“There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.”
I thought this quote from her Wikipedia article was interesting because it demonstrates a rather shocking blatantness in her rejection not just the practice of particular virtues, but the concept of virtue. The other quotes show that she felt the same way about humility as she did about patience. Pride is what makes someone psychotic and yet determined to tell others how to live their lives.
