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And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.

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Here she comes, running, out of prison and off the pedestal: chains off, crown off, halo off, just a live woman.

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In all our discussions and speculations we had always unconsciously assumed that the women, whatever else they might be, would be young. Most men do t...more

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[The Yellow Wallpaper] was not intended to drive people crazy, but to save people from being driven crazy, and it worked.

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They say women have no conscience about laws, don't they?" Mrs MacAvelly suggested. "Why should we?" answered her friend. "We don't make 'em– nor God–...more

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You see, they were Mothers, not in our sense of helpless involuntary fecundity, forced to fill and overfill the land, every land, and then see their c...more

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Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out o...more

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it is only in social relations that we are human...to be human women must share in the totality of humanity's common life. Women, forced to lead restr...more

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the human mind was no better than in its earliest period of savagery, only better informed

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John laughs at me, of course, but one expects that in marriage.

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I am glad my case is not serious! But these nervous troubles are dreadfully depressing. John does not know how much I really suffer. He knows there is...more

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I really have discovered something at last. Through watching so much at night, when it changes so, I have finally found out. The front pattern does mo...more

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But I MUST say what I feel and think in some way — it is such a relief! But the effort is getting to be greater than the relief.

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It is dull enough to confuse the eye in following, pronounced enough to constantly irritate and provoke study, and when you follow the lame uncertain ...more

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Its time we woke up,” pursued Gerald, still inwardly urged to unfamiliar speech. “Women are pretty much people, seems to me. I know they dress like fo...more