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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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A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.
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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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Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering of millions. Patriotism is largely pride, and very largely combativeness. Patriotism generally has a chip on its shoulder.
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A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.
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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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In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
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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 ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.
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A concept is stronger than a fact.
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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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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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Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.
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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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To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
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Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
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The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.
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The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
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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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