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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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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 man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it why should a woman?
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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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To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature to make beautiful things has more.
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The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
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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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The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged truth which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.
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In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
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A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.
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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 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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The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.
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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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Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.
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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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I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.
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A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.
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Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
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