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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.
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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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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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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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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The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.
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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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A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.
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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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Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man.
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Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading The Yellow Wallpaper.It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.
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