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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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A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it why should a woman?
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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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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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To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
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I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!
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The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.
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A concept is stronger than a fact.
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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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I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.
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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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Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.
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