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We know that if we're going to remain economically competitive in the world, and viable as a civic democracy, that we're going to have to get more people educated to higher levels. ↗

— Margaret Spellings

#competitive #democracy #economically #educated #get

I count myself well educated, for the admirable woman at the head of the school which I attended from the age of four and a half till I was thirteen and a half, was a born teacher in advance of her own times. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#advance #age #attended #born #count

Probably my mother's life was prolonged beyond that of a long-lived family by her coming to Australia in middle life; and if I ever had any tendency to consumption, the climate must have helped me. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#australia #beyond #climate #coming #consumption

South Australia was the first community to give the secret ballot for political elections. ↗

— Catherine Helen Spence

#ballot #community #elections #first #give

The function of the law is not to provide justice or to preserve freedom. The function of the law is to keep those who hold power, in power. ↗

— Gerry Spence

#function #hold #justice #keep #law

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain! ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

#brain #error #forget #man #marks

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. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

#best #choice #class #education #equal

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. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

#age #been #child-bearing #costly #distinctive

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

#become #being #democracy #equal #essence

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. ↗

— Anna Garlin Spencer

#ambition #been #block #effort #failure