Attainment Quote by Anna Garlin Spencer

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Have Faith! Have faith in the Eternal Goodness. Believe that the core of the Universe is sound and sweet.

— Anna Garlin Spencer

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

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain

— Anna Garlin Spencer

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