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The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
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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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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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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The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.
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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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Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man.
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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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The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.
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The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
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Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
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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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Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world, Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power, The world must follow you!
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Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading The Yellow Wallpaper.It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.
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