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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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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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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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To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.
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I was climbing up a mountain-path With many things to do, Important business of my own, And other people's too, When I ran against a Prejudice That quite cut off the view.
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In our steady insistence on proclaiming sex-distinction we have grown to consider most human attributes as masculine attributes, for the simple reason that they were allowed to men and forbidden to women.
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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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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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The peculiarity of all death-based religions is that their subject-matter is entirely outside of facts. Men could think and think, talk and argue, advance, deny, assert, and controversy, and write innumerable books, without being hampered at any time by any fact.
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The female of genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
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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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The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
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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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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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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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The best proof of man's dissatisfaction with the home is found in his universal absence from it.
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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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Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
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