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It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.
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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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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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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