Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

For more than six thousand years the history of woman has been one of hopeless sadness. She moved only to the clank of chains, and her vain desire for better and higher things could not find expression, for woman was by force of circumstances inarticulate. Detraction of one sex and exaltation of the other became a habit of mind expressed in law, in religion, in literature as well as in the ordinary activities of everyday life.

Quaker meetings were the first enclaves in American society in which women were encouraged to speak out in public

Every religion oppresses women. I talk about the Koran because I know this book best. It allows for torture and other mistreatment, especially for women. And I despise the Sharia laws. They cannot be changed. They must be thrown out, abolished.

I have no problem understanding that women are interested in mascara and the Middle East.

A society of atheists would immediately invent a religion.

A nation without a religion - that is like a man without breath.

I certainly don’t believe in religion, although I find it fascinating that it’s become so powerful in the world and it’s kind of dictated morals down through societies for thousands of years, but I don’t see the hand of God at work in the world anywhere.

News for the godless: religion is inescapable. there has never been a human society without some form of worship. And don't point to communist societies like the Soviet Union - they worshipped blue jeans.

Two thousand years ago, we lived in a world of Gods and Goddesses. Today, we live in a world solely of Gods. Women in most cultures have been stripped of their spiritual power.

Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

Religion is a mixed blessing.

I think the world would be much poorer without religion, speaking generally.

I'm not Catholic. I don't believe in God. But at the same time, I'm obsessed by the sacred, by spirituality. The question of redemption has been present well before Christianity, but as French people are a bit stupid, they see all that in religious terms.

If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled.

Everything about women is in perpetual crisis.

I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

I expect that Woman will be the last thing civilized by Man.

There is no being eloquent for atheism. In that exhausted receiver the mind cannot use its wings, - the clearest proof that it is out of its element.

Religion is one dimension of culture, a transcendent element of it.

Christianity has been global for hundreds of years before anyone used the word globalism.

God is very important to me. I love her.

Faith is an important part of the fabric of our society.

Do not underestimate the importance of Islam on the continent of Africa.

You—the outside world—will be told that it is our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, and Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman.