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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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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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Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world, Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power, The world must follow you!
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I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!
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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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The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.
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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.
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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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There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.
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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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