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Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.
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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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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A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.
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A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.
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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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The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.
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I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!
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Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
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Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man.
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The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.
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The peculiarity of all death-based religions is that their subject-matter is entirely outside of facts. Men could think and think, talk and argue, advance, deny, assert, and controversy, and write innumerable books, without being hampered at any time by any fact.
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A concept is stronger than a fact.
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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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To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature to make beautiful things has more.
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Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.
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I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.
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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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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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