"The female of the genus homo is economically……" — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply."
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Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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68 Quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Charlotte Perkins Gilman has 68 quotes on this site.
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I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view.
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The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
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Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in…
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A concept is stronger than a fact.
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The children in this country are the one center and focus of all our thoughts. Every step of our advance…
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It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.
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It is told that Buddha, going out to look on life, was greatly daunted by death. "They all eat one…
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Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential…
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In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.
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Life is a verb, not a noun.
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While we flatter ourselves that things remain the same, they are changing under our very eyes from year to year,…
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round…
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Our children's health and well-being are dependent on our commitment to promoting food access and good eating habits at home,…
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Choice dependent on wealth; those are the Tory words.
— Tony Blair
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Old friends die on you, and they're irreplaceable. You become dependent.
— Lionel Blue
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I think there is a danger with young people of being dependent in the sense that they don't acquire any…
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Europe and North America, we are told, are less dependent on energy-intensive heavy industry than in the 1960s and 1970s.…
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We can't equate democracy with Christianity because the largest democracy on earth is India, which is primarily Hindu. The third…
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The awareness that health is dependent upon habits that we control makes us the first generation in history that to…
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Heart and head are the constituent parts of character; temperament has almost nothing to do with it, and, therefore, character…
— Giacomo Casanova
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All the sciences have a relation, greater or less, to human nature; and...however wide any of them may seem to…
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