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Said the little Eohippus,
"I am going to be a horse,
And on my middle fingernails
To run my earthly course!
* * *
I'm going to have a flowing tail!
I'm going to have a mane!
I'm going to stand fourteen hands high
On the Psychozoic plain!"

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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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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