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Charlotte Perkins Gilman on Women

1860–1935 United States

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

Women and Economics (1898)

Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out. The front pattern does move-and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it!

The Yellow Wallpaper (1891)

The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard progress. We fill the world with the children of 20th century A.D. fathers and 20th century B.C. mothers.

Speech at the National American Convention (1905)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.