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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
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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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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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Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.
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The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
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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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The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard progress.We fill the world with the children of 20th century A.D. fathers and 20th century B.C. mothers.
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It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.
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Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man.
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The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
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The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged truth which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.
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The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.
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I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.
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A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.
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I have preferred chloroform to cancer
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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 people people have for friends Your common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.
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Let us inquire what glory there was in an omnipotent being torturing forever a puny little creature who could in no way defend himself? Would it be to the glory of a man to fry ants?
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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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In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.
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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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