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There's heaven. There it is. What more do we mean? People, free to come together, and in beauty - for growth.
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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In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.
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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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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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The female of genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
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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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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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A concept is stronger than a fact.
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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 be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature to make beautiful things has more.
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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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To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
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Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
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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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To work is not only a right, it is a duty. To work to the full capacity of one's powers is necessary for human development - the full use of one's best faculties - this is the health and happiness for both man and woman.
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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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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 labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
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I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!
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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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