Charlotte Perkins Gilman Thinking Quotations

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

But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.

I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.

If only religion could be brought to take an interest in this earthly future, what a help it would be! ... Think of the appeal to the less spiritual of us, to those who never did get enthusiastic about eternity, or care so tenderly about their own souls, yet who could rise to the thought of improving this world for the children they love, and their children after them.

But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.

No matter what the belief, if it had modestly said, 'This is our best thought, go on, think farther!' then we could have smoothly outgrown our early errors and long since have developed a religion such as would have kept pace with an advancing world. But we were made to believe and not allowed to think. We were told to obey, rather than to experiment and investigate.