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Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out. The front pattern does move-and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it!

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman The Yellow Wallpaper (1891)

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Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.

Women and Economics (1898)

There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

Women and Economics (1898)

Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.

Women and Economics (1898)

A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.

His Religion and Hers (1923)

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.

Women and Economics (1898)

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