“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 only in terrible suffering in the lives of exceptional women, but also in the loss of unmeasured feminine values in special gifts. The Drama of the Woman of Genius has too often been a tragedy of misshapen and perverted power.” SufferingValuesSocialLossSpecialGeniusTerribleDramaUniversalTragedyPressureFeminineExceptionalRestrictionIdenticalSocial PressureSpecial Gifts Book:Woman's Share in Social Culture Source: Woman's Share in Social Culture
“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.” WayFirstsHumansHas BeensFormUsedEffortTalentProduceGeniusAchievementAmbitionIntellectualSupremeBlock Book:Woman's Share in Social Culture Source: Woman's Share in Social Culture
“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.” KnowsMenFirstsChoicesOpportunitySocialNumbersEducationClassGenerationsGeniusEqualIntellectualWelcomeFirst ClassEqual OpportunityGeneral EducationVocational Education Author:Anna Garlin Spencer
