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And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.
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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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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The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged truth which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.
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Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
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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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To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
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I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.
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