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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 female of genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
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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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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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Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
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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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The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.
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A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.
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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 people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.
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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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To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.
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The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
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Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading The Yellow Wallpaper.It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.
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I have preferred chloroform to cancer
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I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.
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It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.
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The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.
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It is the duty of youth to bring fresh new powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should life the world forward. That is what they are for.
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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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