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The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
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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One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The peculiarity of all death-based religions is that their subject-matter is entirely outside of facts. Men could think and think, talk and argue, advance, deny, assert, and controversy, and write innumerable books, without being hampered at any time by any fact.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.
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Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and science that we have made it and while every woman prepares food for her own family, cooking can never rise beyond the level of the amateur's work.
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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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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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To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature to make beautiful things has more.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.
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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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For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.
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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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I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.
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Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.
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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 people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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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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.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The female of genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.
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