Built Quote by Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.” quote by Charlotte Perkins Gilman — Download Open image

“We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.”

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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