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A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it why should a woman?
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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To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.
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If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.
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