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Anna Garlin Spencer (1851-1931) was an American social activist and educator who made significant contributions to the fields of women's education, social reform, and philanthropy.

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“At the outstart of discussions of women's intellectual attainments, it is well to remember how few are the men of the first rank.”

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Author: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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Book:Woman's Share in Social Culture

Source: Woman's Share in Social Culture

“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.”

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Book:The Family and Its Members

Source: The Family and Its Members

“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.”

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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.”

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Author:Anna Garlin Spencer

About the Author

Born: 1851
Died: 1931
Known for: Author
Quotes: 21

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