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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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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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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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For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.
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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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Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
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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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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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The female of genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
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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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The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
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One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race.
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Until mothers earn their livings, women will not
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