The earth is ready, the time is ripe, for the authoritative expression of the feminine as well as the masculine interpretation of that common social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order. — 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 Image
Women of a selected class, by the use of slaves and servants have become inactive, the mere recipients of values, no longer creators but "feeding on unearned wealth." This hurts their nature and debases the social fabric. If a woman does no labor in her home which could properly make her self-supporting outside that home she is in duty bound… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Have Faith! Have faith in the Eternal Goodness. Believe that the core of the Universe is sound and sweet. — Anna Garlin Spencer Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
