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“They say women have no conscience about laws, don't they?" Mrs. MacAvelly suggested. "Why should we?" answered her friend. "We don't make 'em—nor God—nor nature. Why on earth should we respect a set of silly rules made by some men one day and changed by some more the next?" (from According to Solomon)”

MenGodReligionFeminismPatriarchyRulesLawsCharlotte Perkins GilmanAccording To Solomon
Book:The Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories
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“Of course I never mention it to them anymore - I am too wise - but I keep watch of it all the same. There are things in that paper that nobody knows but me, or ever will. Behind that outside pattern the dim shapes get clearer every day. It is always the same shape, only very numerous. And it is like a woman stooping down and creeping about behind that pattern. I don't like it a bit.”

FeminismThe Yellow WallpaperCharlotte Perkins Gilman
Book:"The Yellow Wall-Paper" by Charlotte Perkins Gilman: A Dual-Text Critical Edition
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“If a man loves a girl who is in the first place young and inexperienced; who in the second place is educated with a background of caveman tradition, a middle-ground of poetry and romance, and a foreground of unspoken hope and interest all centering upon the one Event; and who has, furthermore, absolutely no other hope or interest worthy of the name - why, it is a comparatively easy manner to sweep her off her feet with a dashing attack.”

ManipulationPatriarchyCharlotte Perkins GilmanHerlandGender ConstructsThe Manipulation Of Women
Book:Herland
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