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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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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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It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.
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To work is not only a right, it is a duty. To work to the full capacity of one's powers is necessary for human development - the full use of one's best faculties - this is the health and happiness for both man and woman.
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The children in this country are the one center and focus of all our thoughts. Every step of our advance is always considered in its effect on them-on the race. You see, we are MOTHERS, she repeated, as if in that she had said it all.
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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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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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We grovel and worship and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.
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The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.
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In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
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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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Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
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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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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?
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