It is only in social relations that we are human...to be human women must share in the totality of humanity's common life. Women, forced to lead restricted lives, retard all human progress. Growth of organism, the individual or social body requires use of all of our powers in four areas: physical, intellectual, spiritual and social Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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"Women and the making of meaning" by Carol Gilligan. In this quote, Carol Gilligan maintains that women and men have different capacities with regard to the making of meaning. She points out that for both men and women, these four domains of human experience can be used to make sense of one's life and to function more effectively in one's environment. When we talk about the social relations between men and women, we are talking about how we can function in social life; whether we can live together or not is a social relationship that we must learn to manage. Men and women must learn how to make sense of our own lives and in doing so, they can work together in a meaningful way in society.

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

  2. As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.

  3. Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey.

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  5. 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 out of it altogether.

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