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The mother as a social servant instead of a home servant will not lack in true mother duty.... From her work, loved and honored though it is, she will return to her home life, the child life, with an eager, ceaseless pleasure, cleansed of all the fret and fraction and weariness that so mar it now.

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman Women and Economics (1898)

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

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

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

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

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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.

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