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Inspirational Quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
- A concept is stronger than a fact.
- There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago.
- It is not that women are really smaller-minded, weaker-minded, more timid and vacillating, but that whosoever, man or woman, lives always in a small, dark…
- I have preferred chloroform to cancer
- The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
- Until mothers earn their livings, women will not
- I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time.
- Until we see what we are, we cannot take steps to become what we should be.
- Love grows by service.
- The home is the center and circumference, the start and the finish, of most of our lives.
- The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.
- Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.
- However, one cannot put a quart in a pint cup.
- A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.
- Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.
- It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.
- There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will.
- Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.
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