American - Writer | July 3, 1860 - August 17, 1935
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.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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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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To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.
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Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.
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There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
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Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.
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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 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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When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.
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The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
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In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
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A concept is stronger than a fact.
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