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The female of genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
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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I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.
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The children in this country are the one center and focus of all our thoughts. Every step of our advance is always considered in its effect on them-on the race. You see, we are MOTHERS, she repeated, as if in that she had said it all.
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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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The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.
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For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.
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There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.
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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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It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.
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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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Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.
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In our steady insistence on proclaiming sex-distinction we have grown to consider most human attributes as masculine attributes, for the simple reason that they were allowed to men and forbidden to women.
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A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.
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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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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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Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
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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 softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
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The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.
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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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