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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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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 mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.
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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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A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.
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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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Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
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A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.
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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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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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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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And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.
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To-day there is hardly a woman of intelligence in all America ... who is not definitely and actively concerned in some social interest, who does not recognize some duty besides those incident to her own blood relationship.
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Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.
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The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
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A concept is stronger than a fact.
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Until mothers earn their livings, women will not
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