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A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.
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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The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
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Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
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A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it why should a woman?
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Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?
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Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
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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 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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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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We all need one another much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred, private home of his own, so all human creatures need a place to be together in, from the two who can show each other their souls uninterruptedly, to the largest throng that can throb and stir in unison.
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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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The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
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In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.
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The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
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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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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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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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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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There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.
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Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly!
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