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 womanhoo…

- 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 our daily task,…

- 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 used to block the way of all women of …

- 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 restrictions, has resulted not…

- 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 the fact when he casually me…

- 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

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 …

- 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 "feeding on …

- Anna Garlin Spencer

Slowly ... the truth is dawning upon women, and still more slowly upon men, that woman is no stepchild of nature, no Cinderella of fate to be dowered…

- Anna Garlin Spencer