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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
Artist
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Feminist
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Connecticut
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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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The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
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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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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 mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.
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If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.
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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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To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature to make beautiful things has more.
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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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The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
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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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The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
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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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A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it why should a woman?
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A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.
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