When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3 1860 – August 17 1935) was a prominent American sociologist novelist writer of short stories poetry and nonfiction and a lecturer for social reform. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story The Yellow Wallpaper which Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women and Charlotte Perkins Gilman served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle.