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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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Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.
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The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
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The female of genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
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The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
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The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
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To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature to make beautiful things has more.
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In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.
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Until mothers earn their livings, women will not
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A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.
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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.
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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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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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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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Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world, Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power, The world must follow you!
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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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If fifty men did all the work, / And gave the price to five, / And let those five make all the rules - / You'd say the fifty men were fools, / Unfit to be alive.
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The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.
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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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In our steady insistence on proclaiming sex-distinction we have grown to consider most human attributes as masculine attributes, for the simple reason that they were allowed to men and forbidden to women.
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