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To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

~Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Topics: Doctrine Dominating Follow Human Human Mind Mind New Old Propaganda Still Swallow Weakness Whether

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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.

~Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Topics: Another Attain Believe Happiness Must Need Only Secure Something While World

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There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

~Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Topics: Brain Female Liver Mind Organ Sex Speak Well

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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

Topics: Certainly Could Economic Enables Factors Horses House Labor Men More Otherwise Produce Society Than Way Wealth Women Women Are

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Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.

~Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Topics: Become Civilized Developed Feel Home Live Only Outside Think Work

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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.

~Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Topics: After Begins Dead Eternity Going Now Something Time You

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The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

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Topics: Duty Find Work

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A concept is stronger than a fact.

~Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.

~Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

~Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Topics: American City Everyone Exile More New New York New York City None Than York

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 3rd, 1860

Died: August 17th, 1935

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