Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes on Mind
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 mind, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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“There is no female mind; the brain is not an organ of sex.”
Ch. 8. -
“There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.”
Women and Economics(1898) | Ch. 8. -
“Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.”
Women and Economics(1898) | Ch. 10. -
“You think you have mastered it [the wallpaper pattern], but just as you get well under way in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you.”
"The Yellow Wallpaper" (1891)