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To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.
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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Said I, in scorn all burning hot,In rage and anger high,You ignominious idiot,Those wings are made to fly!
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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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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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I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!
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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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To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
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The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
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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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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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