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

At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first…

— 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

A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that…

— 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…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

Slowly ... the truth is dawningupon women, and still more slowly upon men, that woman is no stepchild of nature, no Cinderella…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life…

— 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…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

And when her biographer says of an Italian woman poet, 'during some years her Muse was intermitted,' we do not wonder at…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

Wherever the State touches the personal life of the infant, the child, the youth, or the aged, helpless, defective in mind, body…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

The universal social pressure upon women to be all alike, and do all the same things, and to be content with identical…

— Anna Garlin Spencer

Prostitution requires for its diminution not only laws, well enforced, to abolish the traffic in womanhood; not only better social protection against…

— Anna Garlin Spencer