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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 speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.
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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's heaven. There it is. What more do we mean? People, free to come together, and in beauty - for growth.
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The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
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I was climbing up a mountain-path With many things to do, Important business of my own, And other people's too, When I ran against a Prejudice That quite cut off the view.
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It is the duty of youth to bring fresh new powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should life the world forward. That is what they are for.
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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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The peculiarity of all death-based religions is that their subject-matter is entirely outside of facts. Men could think and think, talk and argue, advance, deny, assert, and controversy, and write innumerable books, without being hampered at any time by any fact.
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In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
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The stony-minded orthodox were right in fearing the first movement of new knowledge and free thought. It has gone on, and will go on, irresistibly, until some day we shall have no respect for an alleged truth which cannot stand the full blaze of knowledge, the full force of active thought.
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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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If fifty men did all the work, / And gave the price to five, / And let those five make all the rules - / You'd say the fifty men were fools, / Unfit to be alive.
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The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
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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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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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I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.
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