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To keep my health! To do my work! To live! To see to it I grow and gain and give! Never to look behind me for an hour! To wait in weakness and to walk in power But always fronting forward to the light, Always, and always facing toward the right. Robbed, starved, defeated, fallen, wide astray— On, with what strength I have! Back to the way!
To keep my health! To do my work! To live! To see to it I grow and gain and give! Never to look behind me for an hour! To wait in weakness and to walk in power But always fronting forward to the light, Always, and always facing toward the right. Robbed, starved, defeated, fallen, wide astray— On, with what strength I have! Back to the way!
Approximate author period: c. 1897 AD · industrial
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- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
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- Approximate author period: c. 1897 AD · industrial
Approximate author-period evidence for Charlotte Perkins Gilman: life dates 1860 to 1935. Wikidata Q287752, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q287752 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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- The Optimist’s Good Morning (1911) (1911 AD)
Complete signed selection 2; printed byline: Charlotte Perkins Gilman; Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911; printed copyright 1907
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