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To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Age: 75 †
Born: 1860
Born: July 3
Died: 1935
Died: August 17
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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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I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!
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A concept is stronger than a fact.
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In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
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A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it why should a woman?
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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 people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.
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