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Mind Quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

9 Mind quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s advocacy for women’s agency emerges in nine brief reflections on the mind. The lines blend social critique with personal insight, offering a concise yet powerful voice.

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What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women?

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(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my…

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There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

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

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There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver.

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At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the…

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all social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely…

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The religious need of the human mind remains alive, never more so, but it demands a teaching which can be understood. Slowly…

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The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God,…

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“They were inconveniently reasonable, these women.”

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Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and science that…

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To-day there is hardly a woman of intelligence in all America ... who is not definitely and actively concerned in some social interest, who…

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“Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.”

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“I never saw so much expression in an inanimate thing before, and we all know how much expression they have! I used to lie…

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In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

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The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard…

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Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.

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Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over…

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The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.

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The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.

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

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No matter what the belief, if it had modestly said, 'This is our best thought, go on, think farther!' then we could have smoothly…

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A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.

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The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.

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