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Charlotte Perkins Gilman Inspirational Quotes (63)

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In our steady insistence on proclaiming sex-distinction we have grown to consider most human attributes as masculine attributes, for the simple reason that they were allowed to men and forbidden to women.
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We grovel and worship and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.
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We all need one another much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred, private home of his own, so all human creatures need a place to be together in, from the two who can show each other their souls uninterruptedly, to the largest throng that can throb and stir in unison.
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It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.
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Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?
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Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
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A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.
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There's heaven. There it is. What more do we mean? People, free to come together, and in beauty - for growth.
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Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly!
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A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.
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And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.
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Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.
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The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
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A concept is stronger than a fact.
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I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.
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The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.
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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
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There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.
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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.
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The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
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To-day there is hardly a woman of intelligence in all America ... who is not definitely and actively concerned in some social interest, who does not recognize some duty besides those incident to her own blood relationship.
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I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!
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The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
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A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.
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