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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.
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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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 fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard progress.We fill the world with the children of 20th century A.D. fathers and 20th century B.C. mothers.
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If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.
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Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
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The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.
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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.
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Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.
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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 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.
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A concept is stronger than a fact.
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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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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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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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I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.
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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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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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One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.
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I have preferred chloroform to cancer
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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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The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
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