"They say women have no conscience about laws, don't they? Mrs MacAvelly suggested. Why should we? answered her friend. We don't make 'em– nor God– nor nature. Why on earth should we respect a set of silly rules made by some men one day and changed by some more the next?"
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an American writer, social theorist, and feminist thinker best known for The Yellow Wallpaper. Her work examined gender, economic independence, and social reform.