Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers of womanhood after the child-bearing age. — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
Anyone can see that to write Uncle Tom's Cabin on the knee in the kitchen, with constant calls to cooking and other details of… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share
Women of a selected class, by the use of slaves and servants have become inactive, the mere recipients of values, no longer creators but… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share
A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share
The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share
The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share
At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank. — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share
The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share
Of all the wastes of human ignorance perhaps the most extravagant and costly to human growth has been the waste of the distinctive powers… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share
Have Faith! Have faith in the Eternal Goodness. Believe that the core of the Universe is sound and sweet. — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share
To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient sanctities of… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share
It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share
Slowly ... the truth is dawningupon women, and still more slowly upon men, that woman is no stepchild of nature, no Cinderella of fate… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share
The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share
It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped… — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share
