There is no female mind. The brain is no... by Charlotte Perkins Gilman | We Heart Quotes

Author Mind Sex feminist Women's Rights

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Food

The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Literature

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Fact

A concept is stronger than a fact.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Doctrine Mind

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Work

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Duty Society Job Right Being

The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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