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Love grows by service. 
The world is quite right. It does not have to be consistent. 
Only as we live, think, feel, and work outside the home, do we become humanly developed, civilized, socialized. 
Not woman, but the condition of woman, has always been a doorway of evil. 
But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter. 
Woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body 
Exciting literature after supper is not the best digestive. 
There should be an end to the bitterness of feeling which has arisen between the sexes in this century. 
When we use our past merely as a guide-book, and concentrate our noble emotions on the present and future, we shall improve more rapidly. 
To swallow and follow, whether old doctrine or new propaganda, is a weakness still dominating the human mind. 
It is the same woman, I know, for she is always creeping, and most women do not creep by daylight. 
One religion after another has accepted and perpetuated man's original mistake in making a private servant of the mother of the race. 
A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it. 
I always lock the door when I creep by daylight. 
I have preferred chloroform to cancer 
There's heaven. There it is. What more do we mean? People, free to come together, and in beauty - for growth. 
I'm sure I never used to be so sensitive. I think it is due to this nervous condition. 
I cry at nothing, and cry most of the time. 
What would have been the effect upon religion if it had come to us through the minds of women? 
Life is a verb, not a noun. 
It is so hard to talk with John about my case, because he is so wise, and because he loves me so. 
Those who too patiently serve as props sometimes underrate the possibilities of the vine. 
A house does not need a wife any more than it needs a husband. 
The softest, freest, most pliable and changeful living substance is the brain-the hardest and most iron-bound as well. 
There was a time when Patience ceased to be a virtue. It was long ago. 
New York - that unnatural city where every one is an exile, none more so than the American 
In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans. 
Until mothers earn their livings, women will not 
I was madly in love with not so much what was there as with what I supposed to be there. 
A man does not have to stay at home all day, in order to love it; why should a woman? 
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. 
Specialization and organization are the basis of human progress. 
The front pattern DOES move - and no wonder! The woman behind shakes it! 
I never saw a worse paper in my life. One of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin. 
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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. 
Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain. 
In a sick society, women who have difficulty fitting in are not ill but demonstrating a healthy and positive response. 
A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world. 
The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply. 
If a woman is really injured by her marriage, she should sue under the employer liability act. She should claim damagesnot alimony.
To speak broadly, the troubles of life as we find them are mainly traceable to the heart or the purse. 
The one predominant duty is to find one's work and do it. 
John is away all day, and even some nights when his cases are serious. I am glad my case is not serious! 
The fact is I am getting a little afraid of John. 
I always liked that Arab saying, 'First tie your camel and then trust in the Lord, 
The difference is great between one's outside "life," the things which happen to one, incidents, pains and pleasures, and one's "living." 
I ran against a Prejudice that quite cut off the view. 
We grovel and "worship" and pray to God to do what we ourselves ought to have done a thousand years ago, and can do now, as soon as we choose. 