“the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The religious need of the human mind remains alive, never more so, but it demands a teaching which can be understood. Slowly… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
all social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women? — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“One new indulgence was to go out evenings alone. This I worked out carefully in my mind, as not only a right… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and science that… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
To-day there is hardly a woman of intelligence in all America ... who is not definitely and actively concerned in some social interest, who… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.” — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
“I never saw so much expression in an inanimate thing before, and we all know how much expression they have! I used to lie… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
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… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
