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Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive Picture Quote #1

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans Picture Quote #1

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized Picture Quote #1

The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading the Yellow Wallpaper. It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked Picture Quote #1

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There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will Picture Quote #1

Today 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 Picture Quote #1

$The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty. From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now Picture Quote #1$

The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard progress. We fill the world with the children of 20th century A. D. Fathers and 20th century B. C. Mothers Picture Quote #1

Life is a verb, not a noun Picture Quote #1

This is the woman’s century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place... and the world waits while she powders her nose Picture Quote #1

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A man’s honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it Picture Quote #1

In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response Picture Quote #1

There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will Picture Quote #1

Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil Picture Quote #1

Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead, it is going on all the time Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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You think you have mastered it, but just as you get well under way in following, it turns a back somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you Picture Quote #1

Grateful return for happiness conferred is not the method of exchange in a partnership. The comfort a man takes with his wife is not in the nature of a business partnership, nor are her frugality and industry Picture Quote #1

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Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive (Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes) In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans (Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes) Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized (Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes) The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply (Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes) 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 (Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes) Many years later I was told that the great specialist had admitted to friends of his that he had altered his treatment of neurasthenia since reading the Yellow Wallpaper. It was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked (Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes) There are things in that wallpaper that nobody knows about but me, or ever will (Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes) Today 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 (Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes) 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 (Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes) The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard progress. We fill the world with the children of 20th century A. D. Fathers and 20th century B. C. Mothers (Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes) Life is a verb, not a noun (Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes) This is the woman’s century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place... and the world waits while she powders her nose (Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes) A man’s honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it (Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes) In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response (Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes) There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will (Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes) Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil (Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes) Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead, it is going on all the time (Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes) 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 (Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes) You think you have mastered it, but just as you get well under way in following, it turns a back somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you (Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes) Grateful return for happiness conferred is not the method of exchange in a partnership. The comfort a man takes with his wife is not in the nature of a business partnership, nor are her frugality and industry (Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes)

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