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Until mothers earn their livings, women will not
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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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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Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.
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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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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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Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man.
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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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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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Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
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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 home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
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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 softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
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