Charlotte Perkins Gilman - Human Quotes

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We all need one another; much and often. Just as every human creature needs a place to be alone in, a sacred, private "home" of his own, so all human creatures need a place to be together in, from the two who can show each other their souls uninterruptedly, to the largest throng that can throb and stir in unison.

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The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.

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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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To work is not only a right, it is a duty. To work to the full capacity of one's powers is necessary for human development — the full use of one's best faculties — this is the health and happiness for both man and woman.

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Cried all, "Before such things can come,
You idiotic child,
You must alter human nature!"
And they all sat back and smiled.

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In our steady insistence on proclaiming sex-distinction we have grown to consider most human attributes as masculine attributes, for the simple reason that they were allowed to men and forbidden to women.

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The home is a human institution. All human institutions are open to improvement.

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It will be a great thing for the human soul when it finally stops worshipping backwards.

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All social relations exist and grow in the human mind. That one despot can rule over a million other men rests absolutely on their state of mind. They believe that he does; let them change their minds, and he does not.

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The first duty of a human is to assume the right functional relationship to society — more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.

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The religious need of the human mind remains alive, never more so, but it demands a teaching which can be understood. Slowly an apprehension of the intimate, usable power of God is growing among us, and a growing recognition of the only worth-while application of that power — in the improvement of the world.

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To be surrounded by beautiful things has much influence upon the human creature; to make beautiful things has more.

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Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress.

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We have built into the constitution of the human race the habit and desire of taking, as divorced from its natural precursor and concomitant of making.

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So when the great word "Mother!" rang once more, I saw at last its meaning and its place; Not the blind passion of the brooding past, But Mother -- the World's Mother -- come at last, To love as she had never loved before -- To feed and guard and teach the human race.

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