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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
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Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.
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The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.
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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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The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
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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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In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response.
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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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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 best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.
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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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Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
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A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.
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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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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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A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.
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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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I have preferred chloroform to cancer
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We all need one another much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred, private home of his own, so all human creatures need a place to be together in, from the two who can show each other their souls uninterruptedly, to the largest throng that can throb and stir in unison.
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