Spencer

Famous quotes containing the word spencer:

    No record ... can ... name the women of talent who were so submerged by child- bearing and its duties, and by “general housework,” that they had to leave their poems and stories all unwritten.
    —Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)

    The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
    —Herbert Spencer (1820–1903)

    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.”
    —Anna Garlin Spencer (1851–1931)