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Woman Quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- 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…
- And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body,
- A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.
- Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or…
- It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight.
- Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress…
- There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will. Behind that outside pattern the dim shapes get clearer every day.…
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