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.

Women are no longer silent in society; they are now recognized and play a role
Democracy once relied heavily on the strong educational upbringing of children (once the women’s role). She was a leader in the women's suffrage and peace movements. In 1878 Anna Garlin Spencer married Reverend William Spencer.

Born in Attleboro MA Anna Garlin Spencer married the Rev. Over a long period Anna Garlin Spencer was a popular lecturer and wrote on social problems especially concerning women and family relations. She compiled Eddy’s views into a Bond of Union to which members of the new society would subscribe.