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Charlotte Perkins Gilman [1860-1935] American

Rank: 101
Writer, Novelist

Charlotte Perkins Gilman was a prominent American feminist, sociologist, novelist, writer of short stories, poetry, and nonfiction, and a lecturer for social reform.

Society, Food, Happiness, Imagination, Men, Relationship, Women

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To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.		101
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.	Relationship, Society	102
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.	Men, Society, Women	103
A concept is stronger than a fact.		104
Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning.		105
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.		106
The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.	Food	107
When the mother of the race is free, we shall have a better world, by the easy right of birth and by the calm, slow, friendly forces of evolution.		108
Eternity is not something that begins after you're dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now.		109
To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.	Happiness	110
But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.		111
There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.		112
Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.		113
New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.		114
The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.		115
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.		116
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.	Imagination	117

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