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Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

~Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.

~Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Topics: American City Every Exile More New New York None Than Unnatural Where York

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But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

~Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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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.

~Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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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.

~Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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

~Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Topics: Dependent Economically Female Food Food Supply He Her Homo Male Supply

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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.

~Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: July 3rd, 1860

Died: August 17th, 1935

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