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Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
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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Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
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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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The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
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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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Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
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If fifty men did all the work, / And gave the price to five, / And let those five make all the rules - / You'd say the fifty men were fools, / Unfit to be alive.
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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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A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it why should a woman?
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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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And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.
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Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering of millions. Patriotism is largely pride, and very largely combativeness. Patriotism generally has a chip on its shoulder.
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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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I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.
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Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man.
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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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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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The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
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For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.
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