The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional rela…

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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Audiences are always better pleased with a smart retort, some joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning. ✨ Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1935). The Living of Charlotte Perkins Gilman: An Autobio … ▶
The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses. ✨ Women and Economi … ▶
Never in all her life had she imagined that this idolized millinery could look, to those who paid for it, like the decorations of an insane monkey. ✨ Charlotte Perkins Gilman (2006). The Yellow Wallp … ▶
I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition. ✨ Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1999). The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader, p.4, University of Virginia Press
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 fools - but who’s to blame for that? We invent all … ▶

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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