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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 talent and ambition for intellectual achievement."

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Donna Grant

"Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."

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Donna Grant

"All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."

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Donna Grant

"The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."

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Donna Grant

"Whether they give or refuse, it delights women just the same to have been asked."

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Donna Grant

"You can find women who have never had an affair, but it is hard to find a woman who has had just one."

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Donna Grant

"The Cause of Women is generally the Cause of Virtue."

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Donna Grant

"In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits."

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Donna Grant

"What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."

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Donna Grant

"Aristotle maintained that women have fewer teeth than men; although he was twice married, it never occurred to him to verify this statement by examining his wives' mouths."

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Donna Grant

"I was never very interested in boys - and there were plenty of them - vying with one another to see how many famous women they would get into the hay."

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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 men in education, in vocational choice, and in social welcome of their best intellectual work for a number of generations."

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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 a minister's wife."

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

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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 talent and ambition for intellectual achievement."

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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 social consensus which is slowly writing justice in the State and fraternity in the social order."

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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, or else demoralized by it, as by nothing else."

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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 of womanhood after the child-bearing age."

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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 that he should have opportunity equal to that of every other human being to show what he was meant to become."

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