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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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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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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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Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading The Yellow Wallpaper.It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.
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Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man.
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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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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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For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.
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Shall you complain who feed the world? Who clothe the world? Who house the world? Shall you complain who are the world, Of what the world may do? As from this hour You use your power, The world must follow you!
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The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.
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A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.
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To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature to make beautiful things has more.
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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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A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.
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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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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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The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.
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The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.
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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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I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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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