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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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The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.
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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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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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The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
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Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
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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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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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A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it why should a woman?
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Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
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For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.
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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.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.
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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 fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard progress.We fill the world with the children of 20th century A.D. fathers and 20th century B.C. mothers.
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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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The female of genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.
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It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain curves for a little distance they suddenly commit suicide—plunge off at outrageous angles, destroy themselves in unheard of contradictions.
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It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.
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