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Charlotte Perkins Gilman Quotes: The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.
         

The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well.


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When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.




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We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose.



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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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To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.




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Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time.



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A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it.



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When we go all in, we find the answers. They're in us.



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X + Y + Z X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.



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I like to set realistic goals for myself, not outrageous ones.



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