Charlotte Perkins Gilman Mind Quotations

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

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

(I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind

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.

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.