"This is the woman's century, the first chance……" — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"This is the woman's century, the first chance for the mother of the world to rise to her full place . . . and the world waits while she powders her nose."
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68 Quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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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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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
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I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.
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John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is…
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When a tradition gathers enough strength to go on for centuries, you don't just turn it off one day.
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Once upon a time, novelists of the 19th century, such as Charles Dickens, published in serial form.
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You can examine the whole 19th century from the point of view of who would have maxed out their credit…
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
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The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the…
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As a great man's influence never ends, so also there is not definite finality, no end, to a great survey;…
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Kingsley Amis was one of a trio of brilliant comic novelists who made English literature sparkle in the twentieth century.
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