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To work is not only a right, it is a duty. To work to the full capacity of one's powers is necessary for human development - the full use of one's best faculties - this is the health and happiness for both man and woman.
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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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 home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.
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Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
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And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.
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In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
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