The mother as a social ...

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.
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 Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to society - more briefly, to find your real job, and do it.
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 Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!
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 Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The children in this country are the one center and focus of all our thoughts. Every step of our advance is always considered in its effect on them-on the race. You see, we are MOTHERS, she repeated, as if in that she had said it all.
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 Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The mother- poor invaded soul- finds even the bathroom door no bar to hammering little hands.
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 Charlotte Perkins Gilman
The fact that women in the home have shut themselves away from the thought and life of the world has done much to retard progress.We fill the world with the children of 20th century A.D. fathers and 20th century B.C. mothers.
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 Charlotte Perkins Gilman