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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Age: 75 †
Born: 1860
Born: July 3
Died: 1935
Died: August 17
Artist
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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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A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy 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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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.
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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
There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.
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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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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
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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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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?
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The female of genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
