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Marriage is flawed when women enter it for food and clothes and men for cooks and housekeepers
Drawn from what Charlotte Perkins Gilman said
What Charlotte Perkins Gilman actually said
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman American writer and feminist theorist (1860 to 1935)
It is a glaring proof of the insufficient and irritating character of our existing form of marriage that women must be forced to it by the need of food and clothes, and men by the need of cooks and housekeepers.
Where this was said
↗Women and Economics (1898)gutenberg.org
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