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The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
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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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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I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!
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If fifty men did all the work, / And gave the price to five, / And let those five make all the rules - / You'd say the fifty men were fools, / Unfit to be alive.
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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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Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
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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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In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
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Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world, Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power, The world must follow you!
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The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
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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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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 softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
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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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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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The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
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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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I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.
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