Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.

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.

A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.

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

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.

I'm getting really fond of the room in spite of the wallpaper. Perhaps because of the wallpaper.