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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.
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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To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
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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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