“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.” ShouldHumansShowsOpportunityHuman BeingsDemocracyPersonalityEqualShould HaveEssenceMeant To BeAssurance Author: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.” HumansChildrenHas BeensAgeGrowthIgnoranceWasteWomanhoodDistinctiveExtravagant 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
“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.” MenWorldHumansMadeStillsStuffFateMastersTruth IsSupremeFairyRevelationsAttainmentGreat ExperiencesStepchild Book:Woman's Share in Social Culture Source: Woman's Share in Social Culture