"'Do you love me?' they ask, and, 'I will make you happy!' they say; and you get married - and after that it's Housework!"...
..."Can't a woman enjoy her home, just as a man does, without running the shop? I enjoy ocean travel, but I don't want to be either a captain or a common sailor!"
From What Diantha Did, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1909
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