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

~Anna Garlin Spencer

Topics: Brain Error Forget He Man Marks Old Put Quotation Where Woman

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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

Topics: After Age Been Costly Distinctive Extravagant Growth Human Ignorance Most Perhaps Powers Waste Wastes Womanhood

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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

Topics: Common Consensus Earth Expression Feminine Fraternity Interpretation Justice Masculine Order Ready Ripe Slowly Social Social Order State Time Well Which Writing

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The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement.

~Anna Garlin Spencer

Topics: Achievement All Women Ambition Been Block Effort Failure First Forms Genius Human Intellectual Most Produce Rank Supreme Talent Used Way Women

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Can a woman become a genius of the first class? Nobody can know unless women in general shall have equal opportunity with men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations.

~Anna Garlin Spencer

Topics: Become Best Choice Class Education Equal Equal Opportunity First First Class General Generations Genius Intellectual Know Men Nobody Number Opportunity Shall Social Unless Vocational Welcome Woman Women Work

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A successful woman preacher was once asked what special obstacles have you met as a woman in the ministry? Not one, she answered, except the lack of a minister's wife.

~Anna Garlin Spencer

Topics: Answered Asked Except Lack Met Minister Ministry Obstacles Once Preacher She Special Successful Wife Woman You

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The experience of the race shows that we get our most important education not through books but through our work. We are developed by our daily task, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else.

~Anna Garlin Spencer

Topics: Books Daily Demoralized Developed Education Else Experience Get Important Most Nothing Our Race Shows Task Through Work

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The essence of democracy is its assurance that every human being should so respect himself and should be so respected in his own personality that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become.

~Anna Garlin Spencer

Topics: Assurance Become Being Democracy Equal Essence Every He Himself His Human Human Being Meant Opportunity Other Own Personality Respect Respected Should Show

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Educator

Born: Unknown

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