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Charlotte Perkins Gilman Inspirational Quotes (63)

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Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and science that we have made it and while every woman prepares food for her own family, cooking can never rise beyond the level of the amateur's work.
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In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.
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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 The Yellow Wallpaper.It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.
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To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.
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I have preferred chloroform to cancer
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Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.
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If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.
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One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.
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To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature to make beautiful things has more.
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I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.
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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. They believe that he does let them change their minds, and he does not.
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The children in this country are the one center and focus of all our thoughts. Every step of our advance is always considered in its effect on them-on the race. You see, we are MOTHERS, she repeated, as if in that she had said it all.
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In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
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A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.
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We are pushed forward by the social forces, reluctant and stumbling, our faces over our shoulders, clutching at every relic of the past as we are forced along still adoring whatever is behind us. We insist upon worshipping 'the God of our fathers.' Why not the God of our children? Does eternity only stretch one way?
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It is the duty of youth to bring fresh new powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should life the world forward. That is what they are for.
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The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged truth which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.
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For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.
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Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
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To work is not only a right, it is a duty. To work to the full capacity of one's powers is necessary for human development - the full use of one's best faculties - this is the health and happiness for both man and woman.
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The female of genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
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To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
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The peculiarity of all death-based religions is that their subject-matter is entirely outside of facts. Men could think and think, talk and argue, advance, deny, assert, and controversy, and write innumerable books, without being hampered at any time by any fact.
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Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering of millions. Patriotism is largely pride, and very largely combativeness. Patriotism generally has a chip on its shoulder.
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