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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.
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 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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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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Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.
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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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We all need one another much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred, private home of his own, so all human creatures need a place to be together in, from the two who can show each other their souls uninterruptedly, to the largest throng that can throb and stir in unison.
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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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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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A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.
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Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.
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Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man.
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Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
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In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
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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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I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.
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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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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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The female of genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
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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!
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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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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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