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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.
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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A concept is stronger than a 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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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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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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We all need one another much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred, private home of his own, so all human creatures need a place to be together in, from the two who can show each other their souls uninterruptedly, to the largest throng that can throb and stir in unison.
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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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There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.
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It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.
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For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.
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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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It is the duty of youth to bring fresh new powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should life the world forward. That is what they are for.
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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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Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.
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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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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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Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man.
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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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Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
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