Anna Garlin Spencer famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

To the highest leadership among women it is given to hold steadily in one hand the sacred vessels that hold the ancient sanctities of life, and in the other a flaming torch to light the way for oncoming generations.
-- Anna Garlin Spencer

#Mom #Light #Hands
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

#Successful #Wife #Special
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

#Children #Ignorance #Growth
It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain
-- Anna Garlin Spencer

#Men #Errors #Brain
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 only by fairies and the Prince; but that for her and in her, as truly as for and in man, life has wrought its great experiences, its master attainments, its supreme human revelations of the stuff of which worlds are made.
-- Anna Garlin Spencer

#Fate #Men #World
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

#Book #Race #Important
Prostitution requires for its diminution not only laws, well enforced, to abolish the traffic in womanhood; not only better social protection against harpies who seduce young girls seeking an honest livelihood; not only better chaperonage of young girls in exposed occupations; not only better opportunities for natural enjoyment of youthful pleasure under morally safe conditions; not only these - but most of all, greater power on the part of the average young girl to earn her own support under right conditions and for a living wage.
-- Anna Garlin Spencer

#Girl #Power #Opportunity
Have Faith! Have faith in the Eternal Goodness. Believe that the core of the Universe is sound and sweet.
-- Anna Garlin Spencer

#Sweet #Believe #Sound
It is not alone the fact that women have generally had to spend most of their strength in caring for others that has handicapped them in individual effort; but also that they have almost universally had to care wholly for themselves
-- Anna Garlin Spencer

#Caring #Effort #Care
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

#Writing #Expression #Order
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

#Education #Opportunity #Men
No book has yet been written in praise of a woman who let her husband and children starve or suffer while she invented even the most useful things, or wrote books, or expressed herself in art, or evolved philosophic systems
-- Anna Garlin Spencer

#Art #Husband #Children
The friendship between a man and a woman which does not lead to marriage or desire for marriage may be a life long experience of the greatest value to themselves and to all their circle of acquaintance and of activity; but for this type of friendship both a rare man and a rare woman are needed.
-- Anna Garlin Spencer

#Friendship #Men #Circles
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

#Block #Ambition #Achievement
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 mentions her ten children.
-- Anna Garlin Spencer

#Children #Italian #Years

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