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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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To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature to make beautiful things has more.
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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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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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Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man.
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The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.
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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
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all social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely on their state of mind. They believe that he does let them change their minds, and he does not.
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A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.
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Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
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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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In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.
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The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
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For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.
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I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!
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It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.
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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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In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
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A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.
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