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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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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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I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!
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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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