“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, book Herland

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American feminist, writer, commercial artist, lecturer and … 1860–1935

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