quote [ No kings. No priests. No aristocracies. Only a society whose residents believed they should “grow together — not by competition, but by united action.” It may sound like a Bob Dylan lyric, but it’s a 104-yr-old excerpt from Herland, the science fiction novel by suffragist Charlotte Perkins Gillman in which a money free, farming heavy, all-female utopia thrives in South America. And as wild as it must’ve been for a petticoated society to read about naked, self-sufficient women swinging from the vines, the book wasn’t that far fetched in terms of what was actually happening in turn-of-the-century America. Communes were everywhere. ]