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In our steady insistence on proclaiming sex-distinction we have grown to consider most human attributes as masculine attributes, for the simple reason that they were allowed to men and forbidden to women.
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 swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
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A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.
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In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
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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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