all social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely on their state of mind. The…

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Now why should that man have fainted? But he did,and right across my path by the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

The original necessity for the ceaseless presence of the woman to maintain that altar fire - and it was an altar fire in very truth at one period - h…

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering of milli…

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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 i…

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading …

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman