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And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.

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And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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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 like fools - but who’s to blame for that? We invent all those idiotic hats of theirs, and design their crazy fashions, and what’s more, if a woman is courageous enough to wear common-sense clothes - and shoes - which of us wants to dance with her?

Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
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People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in 'em as food.

Dorothy Gilman
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Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination try to visualize a world without death.

Charlotte Gilman
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It's compassion that makes gods of us.

Dorothy Gilman
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The spirit of mathematics is not captured by spending 3 hours solving 20 look-alike homework problems. Mathematics is thinking, comparing, analyzing, inventing, and understanding. The main point is not quantity or speed—the main point is quality of thought.The spirit of mathematics is not captured by spending 3 hours solving 20 look-alike homework problems. Mathematics is thinking, comparing, analyzing, inventing, and understanding. The main point is not quantity or speed—the main point is quality of thought.

Jane Gilman
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Brainwashing, thought Mrs. Pollifax contemptuously, and suddenly realized that she was not afraid. She had endured other crises without losing her dignity--births, widowhood, illnesses--and she was experienced enough to know now that everything worthwhile took time and loneliness, perhaps even one's death as well.

Dorothy Gilman
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The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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