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In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.
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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I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!
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A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.
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A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.
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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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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 speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.
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In our steady insistence on proclaiming sex-distinction we have grown to consider most human attributes as masculine attributes, for the simple reason that they were allowed to men and forbidden to women.
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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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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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I have preferred chloroform to cancer
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