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

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (July 3 1860 – August 17 1935) was a prominent American sociologist novelist writer of short stories poetry and nonfiction and a lecturer for social reform. Her best remembered work today is her semi-autobiographical short story The Yellow Wallpaper which Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote after a severe bout of postpartum psychosis. She was a utopian feminist during a time when her accomplishments were exceptional for women and Charlotte Perkins Gilman served as a role model for future generations of feminists because of her unorthodox concepts and lifestyle.