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A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Age: 75 †
Born: 1860
Born: July 3
Died: 1935
Died: August 17
Artist
Economist
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Feminist
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Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.
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