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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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Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man.
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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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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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I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.
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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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In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.
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Until mothers earn their livings, women will not
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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 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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To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.
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The female of genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
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Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world, Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power, The world must follow you!
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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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To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
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Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
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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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I have preferred chloroform to cancer
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Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading The Yellow Wallpaper.It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.
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I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!
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