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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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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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Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering of millions. Patriotism is largely pride, and very largely combativeness. Patriotism generally has a chip on its shoulder.
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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 best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.
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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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And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.
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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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I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.
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A concept is stronger than a fact.
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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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For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.
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Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
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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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There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.
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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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If fifty men did all the work, / And gave the price to five, / And let those five make all the rules - / You'd say the fifty men were fools, / Unfit to be alive.
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It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.
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We are pushed forward by the social forces, reluctant and stumbling, our faces over our shoulders, clutching at every relic of the past as we are forced along still adoring whatever is behind us. We insist upon worshipping 'the God of our fathers.' Why not the God of our children? Does eternity only stretch one way?
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The female of genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
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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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