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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 was climbing up a mountain-path With many things to do, Important business of my own, And other people's too, When I ran against a Prejudice That quite cut off the view.
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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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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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It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.
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The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
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It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.
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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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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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In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.
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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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There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.
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Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.
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Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
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To work is not only a right, it is a duty. To work to the full capacity of one's powers is necessary for human development - the full use of one's best faculties - this is the health and happiness for both man and woman.
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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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The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.
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A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.
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A concept is stronger than a fact.
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I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!
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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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