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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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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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It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.
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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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There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.
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Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.
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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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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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And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.
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We grovel and worship and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.
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A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.
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Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
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Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering of millions. Patriotism is largely pride, and very largely combativeness. Patriotism generally has a chip on its shoulder.
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The female of genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
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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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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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