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For men obsessed with women's underwear, a course in washing, ironing and mending is recommended.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Age: 75 †
Born: 1860
Born: July 3
Died: 1935
Died: August 17
Artist
Economist
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Feminist
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Hartford
Connecticut
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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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Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.
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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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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.
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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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Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
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A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.
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If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damages--not alimony.
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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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To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse.
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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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A concept is stronger than a fact.
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I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition.
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To-day there is hardly a woman of intelligence in all America ... who is not definitely and actively concerned in some social interest, who does not recognize some duty besides those incident to her own blood relationship.
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Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
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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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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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