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Author Being First Right Job

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.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Other quotes by Charlotte Perkins Gilman


Doctrine Mind

To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Literature

Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Work

Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
American

New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Duty Work

The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Feeling Power History

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

- Charlotte Perkins Gilman

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All parents should be aware that when they mock or curse gay people, they may be mocking or cursing their own child.

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There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

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The death of Pope John Paul II led many of different faiths and of no faith to acknowledge their debt to the Roman Catholic Church for holding on to absolutes that the rest of us can measure ourselves against.

- Suzanne Fields

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