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The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.
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 all need one another much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred, private home of his own, so all human creatures need a place to be together in, from the two who can show each other their souls uninterruptedly, to the largest throng that can throb and stir in unison.
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A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.
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To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.
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For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.
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The children in this country are the one center and focus of all our thoughts. Every step of our advance is always considered in its effect on them-on the race. You see, we are MOTHERS, she repeated, as if in that she had said it all.
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Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?
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It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.
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Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
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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 one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
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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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There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.
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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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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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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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To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
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The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.
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To work is not only a right, it is a duty. To work to the full capacity of one's powers is necessary for human development - the full use of one's best faculties - this is the health and happiness for both man and woman.
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Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man.
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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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