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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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The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.
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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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Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
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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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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 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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A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.
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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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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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I was climbing up a mountain-path With many things to do, Important business of my own, And other people's too, When I ran against a Prejudice That quite cut off the view.
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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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