Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes on Knowledge
Charlotte Perkins Gilman was an American sociologist, philosopher, novelist, and one of the leading feminist theorists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This page collects quotes attributed to Charlotte Perkins Gilman on the topic of knowledge, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper" in The Forerunner (October 1913)”
For many years I suffered from a severe and continuous nervous breakdown tending to melancholia — and beyond. During about the third year of this trouble I went, in devout faith and some faint stir of hope, to a noted specialist in nervous diseases, the best known in the country. This wise man put me to bed and applied the rest cure, to which a still-good physique responded so promptly that he con -
“Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading The Yellow Wallpaper . It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.”
Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper" in The Forerunner (October 1913). -
“Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper" in The Forerunner (October 1913).”
Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading The Yellow Wallpaper . It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked. -
“The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged "truth" which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.”
The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman , (1935). -
“The color is repellent, almost revolting: a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight.”
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