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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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I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!
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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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Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
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Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.
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