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Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
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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A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.
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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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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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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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In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
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The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.
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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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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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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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To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
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It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.
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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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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 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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A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.
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