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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.Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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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 socialCharlotte Perkins Gilman
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The human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informedCharlotte Perkins Gilman