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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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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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There's heaven. There it is. What more do we mean? People, free to come together, and in beauty - for growth.
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Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.
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Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
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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.
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Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man.
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I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!
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I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.
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The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.
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To-day there is hardly a woman of intelligence in all America ... who is not definitely and actively concerned in some social interest, who does not recognize some duty besides those incident to her own blood relationship.
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