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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband.”  more
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “Habits of thought persist through the centuries; and while a healthy brain may reject the doctrine it no longer believes, it will continue to feel the same sentiments formerly associated with that doctrine.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “Death? Why this fuss about death. Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! ... Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. 'They all eat one another!' he cried, and called it evil. This process I examined, changed the verb, said, 'They all feed one another,' and called it good.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “Human life consists in mutual service. No grief, pain, misfortune, or ‘broken heart,’ is excuse for cutting off one's life while any power of service remains. But when all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.”  more
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “... while we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “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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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “The original necessity for the ceaseless presence of the woman to maintain the altar fire -- and it was an altar fire in very truth at one period -- has passed with the means of prompt ignition; the matchbox has freed the housewife from that incessant service, but the feeling that women should stay at home is with us yet.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman: “So when the great word 'Mother!' rang once more,
I saw at last its meaning and its place;
Not the blind passion of the brooding past,
But Mother -- the World's Mother -- come at last,
To love as she had never loved before --
To feed and guard and teach the human race.
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