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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.

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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