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I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Age: 75 †
Born: 1860
Born: July 3
Died: 1935
Died: August 17
Artist
Economist
Editor
Feminist
Novelist
Philosopher
Poet
Sociologist
Suffragette
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Hartford
Connecticut
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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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