Anna Garlin Spencer
Educator
1851-04-17 – 1931-02-12
American educator, feminist, and Unitarian minister active in women's suffrage, social reform, and peace movements. She became the first woman ordained as a minister in Rhode Island and later worked with Ethical Culture and social-work institutions in New York.
Books by Anna Garlin Spencer
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Quotes by Anna Garlin Spencer
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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.
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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.
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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.
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