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To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature to make beautiful things has more.
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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I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!
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One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.
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A concept is stronger than a fact.
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Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.
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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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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 fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard progress.We fill the world with the children of 20th century A.D. fathers and 20th century B.C. mothers.
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