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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.
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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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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And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.
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Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.
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A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.
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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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I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!
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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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The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
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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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Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.
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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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