Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Mind Quotes

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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 mind

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

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
All social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely on their state of mind. They believe that he does; let them change their minds, and he does not.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The religious need of the human mind remains alive, never more so, but it demands a teaching which can be understood. Slowly an apprehension of the intimate, usable power of God is growing among us, and a growing recognition of the only worth-while application of that power — in the improvement of the world.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God, gaveus relgions which coule not possible maintained without belief and obedience:... we find them most permanent and changeless among people who make the least effort to swquare their beliefs with the laws of life.

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

Charlotte Perkins Gilman