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Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote in a variety of genres, including "The Yellow Wallpaper," a short story highlighting the "rest cure" for women in the 19th century; Woman and Economics, a sociological analysis of women's place; and Herland , a feminist utopia novel. Charlotte Perkins Gilman wrote in favor of equality between men and women.

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• And woman should stand beside man as the comrade of his soul, not the servant of his body.

• There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. Might as well speak of a female liver.

• In our steady insistence on proclaiming sex-distinction we have grown to consider most human attributes as masculine attributes, for the simple reason that they were allowed for men and forbidden to women.