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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