The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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“I always used to say when I was on television that I prefer to be on stage and when on stage I prefer to do television. Typical human condition.”
“Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.”
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