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Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man.
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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Feminist
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Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and science that we have made it and while every woman prepares food for her own family, cooking can never rise beyond the level of the amateur's work.
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Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?
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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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A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.
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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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The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
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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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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 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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Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.
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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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There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.
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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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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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Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.
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For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.
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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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There's heaven. There it is. What more do we mean? People, free to come together, and in beauty - for growth.
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I have preferred chloroform to cancer
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