The children in this country are the one center and focus of all our t…

Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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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. ✨ Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2009). The Yellow Wall-Paper, Herland, and Selected Writings, p.77, Penguin
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