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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 family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.
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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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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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The female of genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
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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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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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In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.
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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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The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
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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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A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.
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Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
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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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To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
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For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.
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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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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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A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it why should a woman?
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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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