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

—Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1898

What a torture to talk to filled heads that allow nothing from the outside to enter them.

—Joseph Joubert, 1807

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed.

—Steve Biko, 1971

What the brain does by itself is infinitely more fascinating and complex than any response it can make to chemical stimulation.

—Ursula K. Le Guin, 1971

In psychoanalysis nothing is true except the exaggerations.

—Theodor Adorno, 1951

The mind is not, I know, a highway but a temple, and its doors should not be carelessly left open.

—Margaret Fuller, 1844

Strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

—Alexander Pope, 1733

From a man’s face, I can read his character. If I can see him walk, I know his thoughts.

—Gaius Petronius Arbiter, c. 60

Not all heads have a brain.

—French proverb

The brain is an unreliable organ, it is monstrously great, monstrously developed. Swollen, like a goiter.

—Aleksandr Blok, c. 1920

What is outside my mind means nothing to it.

—Marcus Aurelius, c. 170

As is the face, so is the mind.

—Roman proverb

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough.

—R.D. Laing, 1967