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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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Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.
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The children in this country are the one center and focus of all our thoughts. Every step of our advance is always considered in its effect on them-on the race. You see, we are MOTHERS, she repeated, as if in that she had said it all.
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It is the duty of youth to bring fresh new powers to bear on Social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should life the world forward. That is what they are for.
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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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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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I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!
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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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There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.
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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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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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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
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A family unity which is only bound together with a table-cloth is of questionable value.
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Maternal instinct, merely as an instinct, is unworthy of our superstitious reverence.
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The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
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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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There's heaven. There it is. What more do we mean? People, free to come together, and in beauty - for growth.
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Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.
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