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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.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Peace, Tired, Army

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1912). “The Forerunner”

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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.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Blood, America, Doe

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.73, e-artnow

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• In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  New York, Women, Memorable

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• California is a state peculiarly addicted to swift enthusiasms. It is a seed-bed of all manner of cults and theories, taken up, and dropped, with equal speed.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Taken, California, Bed

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)”, p.2202, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Believe, Healthy, Brain

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “The Humanness of Women: Theory and Practice of Feminism (Essays and Sketches): Studies and thoughts by the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and deeply respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, known for The Yellow Wallpaper story”, p.167, e-artnow

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• In business life, that is, in its material processes, we eagerly accept the new. In social life, in all our social processes, we piously, valiantly, obdurately, maintain the old.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Social, Accepting, Process

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1904). “Human Work”, p.38, Rowman Altamira

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• At any given period in history the ideas of the common mind are found to antedate the facts. The facts of the twentieth century are approached with the ideas, feelings, prejudices of the tenth.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Ideas, Feelings, Mind

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1904). “Human Work”, p.47, Rowman Altamira

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• La muerte es la condición esencial de la vida, no un mal.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Evil, Memorial, Essentials

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobiography”, p.40, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Evil, Doorways, Conditions

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.141, e-artnow

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• 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

  Madre, hijos, padre

  Speech at National American Convention, 1905

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• Patriotism, red hot, is compatible with the existence of a neglect of national interests, a dishonesty, a cold indifference to the suffering of millions. Patriotism is largely pride, and very largely combativeness. Patriotism generally has a chip on its shoulder.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Pride, Suffering, Hot

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Collected Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: Short Stories, Novels, Poems and Essays: The Yellow Wallpaper, What Diantha Did, Women and Economics, The Crux, Moving the Mountain, Herland and other works from the prominent American feminist, sociologist and novelist”, p.454, e-artnow

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• Architecture might be more sportive and varied if every man built his own house, but it would not be the art and science that we have made it; and while every woman prepares food for her own family, cooking can never rise beyond the level of the amateur's work.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Art, Men, House

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.101, e-artnow

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• We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Race, Desire, Constitution

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.56, e-artnow

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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.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Mean, People, Heaven

  Gilman, Charlotte Perkins (2014). “The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman - An Autobiography”, p.22, Read Books Ltd

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• The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God, gaveus relgions which coule not possible maintained without belief and obedience: ... we find them most permanent and changeless among people who make the least effort to swquare their beliefs with the laws of life.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Hombres, Ley, Personas

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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.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Cutting, Climbing, Views

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2009). “The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings”, p.286, Penguin

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• I do not want to be a fly,I want to be a worm!

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Want, Worms

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Gary Scharnhorst (2012). “Charlotte Perkins Gilman's In this Our World and Uncollected Poems”, p.59, Syracuse University Press

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• There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Sex, Feelings, Bitterness

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.60, e-artnow

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• Legitimate sex-competition brings out all that is best in man.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Sex, Men, Competition

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.54, e-artnow

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• While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year, from day to day.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Change, Eye, Years

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Women and Economics - A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women as a Factor in Social Evolution: From the famous American writer, feminist, social reformer and a respected sociologist who holds an important place in feminist fiction, well-known for her stories The Yellow Wallpaper and Herland”, p.122, e-artnow

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• There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Paper, Nobody Knows, Knows

  "The YellowWallpaper" (1892)

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• The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Iron, Brain, Substance

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)”, p.1840, Delphi Classics

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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.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Madre, País, Hijos

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2009). “The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings”, p.77, Penguin

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• As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Mother, Men, Evil

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Robert Shulman (1998). “The Yellow Wall-paper and Other Stories”, p.268, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The home is the centre and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Home, Our Lives

  "Women and Economics".

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