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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!
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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A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.
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It is the duty of youth to bring fresh new powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should life the world forward. That is what they are for.
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The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged truth which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.
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And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.
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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 home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
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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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There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.
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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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I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.
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Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.
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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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In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.
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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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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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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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A concept is stronger than a fact.
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It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.
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In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
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