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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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About Anna Garlin Spencer

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.

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