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There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.
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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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 speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.
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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 best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.
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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.
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The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.
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