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The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Age: 75 †
Born: 1860
Born: July 3
Died: 1935
Died: August 17
Artist
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Feminist
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A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.
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We grovel and worship and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.
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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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A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it why should a 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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I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.
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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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And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.
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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
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A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.
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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 should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.
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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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I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!
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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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In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
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Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
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