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“As for mother Eve - I wasn't there and can't deny the story, but I will say this. If she brought evil into the world, we men have had the lion's share of keeping it going ever since.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Writings

“When all usefulness is over, when one is assured of an unavoidable and imminent death, it is the simplest of human rights to choose a quick and easy death in place of a slow and horrible one.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman

“Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland

“A man's honor always seems to want to kill a woman to satisfy it. ”
― Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Charlotte Perkins Gilman Reader