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as quoted in History of Woman Suffrage, vol. 5 by Ida Husted Harper (1922)quoted in Jilly Cooper and Tom Hartman, "The Happy Dead" Violets and Vinegar (1980)Women and Economics (1898)

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self (support) slef (development) work (7) education of females (5) independence of women (5) dependence (5) housework (5) marriage (5) idleness (4) business (4)

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

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1860–1935), U.S. author, editor, feminist, and social reformer. Women and Economics, ch. 10 (1898).

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