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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 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.
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Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.
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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 best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.
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To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature to make beautiful things has more.
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Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and science that we have made it and while every woman prepares food for her own family, cooking can never rise beyond the level of the amateur's work.
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Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
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Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
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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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It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.
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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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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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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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Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.
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The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
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