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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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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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The peculiarity of all death-based religions is that their subject-matter is entirely outside of facts. Men could think and think, talk and argue, advance, deny, assert, and controversy, and write innumerable books, without being hampered at any time by any fact.
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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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I have preferred chloroform to cancer
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For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.
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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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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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I was climbing up a mountain-path With many things to do, Important business of my own, And other people's too, When I ran against a Prejudice That quite cut off the view.
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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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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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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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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 time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.
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In our steady insistence on proclaiming sex-distinction we have grown to consider most human attributes as masculine attributes, for the simple reason that they were allowed to men and forbidden to women.
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A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it why should a woman?
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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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A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.
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Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
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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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